Is there a way to get rid of accents and convert a whole string to regular letters?

Question

Is there a better way for getting rid of accents and making those letters regular apart from using String.replaceAll() method and replacing letters one by one?

Answer 1

One of the best way using regex and Normalizer if you have no library is :

    public String flattenToAscii(String s) {
                if(s == null || s.trim().length() == 0)
                        return "";
                return Normalizer.normalize(s, Normalizer.Form.NFD).replaceAll("[\u0300-\u036F]", "");
}

This is more efficient than replaceAll("[^\p{ASCII}]", "")) and if you don't need diacritics (just like your example).

Otherwise, you have to use the p{ASCII} pattern.

Regards.