Efficiently replace all accented characters in a string?

Question

For a poor man\'s implementation of near-collation-correct sorting on the client side I need a JavaScript function that does efficient single character rep

Answer 1

I can't think about an easier way to efficiently remove all diacritics from a string than using this amazing solution.

See it in action:

var string = "öäüÖÄÜ";

var string_norm = string.normalize('NFD').replace(/[\u0300-\u036f]/g, '');
console.log(string_norm);