Remove diacritical marks (ń ǹ ň ñ ṅ ņ ṇ ṋ ṉ ̈ ɲ ƞ ᶇ ɳ ȵ) from Unicode chars

Question

I am looking at an algorithm that can map between characters with diacritics (tilde, circumflex, caret, umlaut, caron) and their \"simple\" character.

For example:

Answer 1

It's part of Apache Commons Lang as of ver. 3.1.

org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils.stripAccents("Añ");

returns An