Which accents does it remove?

It removes the Italian grave accents on a, e, i, o, and u, the acute accent on closed e and o, and the rare circumflex on i. Each accented vowel is mapped to its plain ASCII equivalent.

Does removing accents change meaning?

It can. Italian accents distinguish words: e means and while e-grave means is, and papa means pope while papa-grave means dad. Stripping accents merges these, so use the output only where accents are not allowed.

Does it handle text copied from a PDF?

Yes. Some sources encode accents as a base letter plus a separate combining mark rather than a single accented character. The tool normalises both forms before stripping, so either input works.

Where is this useful?

Anywhere ASCII is required: file and folder names, URL slugs, the local part of email addresses, database keys, and older systems or terminals that cannot display accented Latin characters reliably.

Are non-vowel letters affected?

No. Italian only accents vowels, and the tool leaves all consonants, digits, punctuation, and spacing untouched. Only the accent marks themselves are removed.

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Italian writes stress and grammatical distinctions with accents — à, è, é, ì, ò, ó, ù. When you need plain ASCII for a filename, URL, or legacy system, those marks have to go. This tool strips them while leaving every other character intact.

How it works

The text is first normalised into a decomposed form, which splits an accented vowel into its base letter plus a separate combining accent mark. The combining marks are then removed, and any remaining precomposed accented vowels are mapped to their plain equivalents:

à è ì ò ù  →  a e i o u   (grave)
é ó        →  e o         (acute on closed vowels)
î          →  i           (circumflex)

Handling the decomposed form first means text pasted from PDFs or databases, where accents are often stored as separate marks, is processed correctly too.

Example and tips

Perché è così difficile? becomes Perche e cosi difficile?. Be deliberate about where you use the result: because accents carry meaning in Italian, the output is safe for technical identifiers but not for prose, where readers rely on the accent to tell è (is) from e (and) or lunedì (Monday) from a misspelling. Keep the accented original for anything a person will read.