BigQuery: Convert accented characters to their plain ascii equivalents

Question

I have the following string:

brasília

And I need to convert to:

brasilia

Withou the ´ accent!

Ho

Answer 1

You can call REPLACE() or REGEXP_REPLACE(). You can find some regular expressions at Remove accents/diacritics in a string in JavaScript.

Alternatively, you can use javascript UDF, but I expect it to be slower.