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Unicode Remover

Convert accented letters, smart punctuation, symbols, and styled text to plain ASCII, then remove emoji and characters with no ASCII equivalent.

Method

Unicode text

ASCII text

Accents, smart punctuation, symbols, styled letters, emoji, and non-Latin scripts are handled locally.

Your text is processed on your device and never uploaded anywhere.

Turn Unicode into dependable plain text

Unicode lets text contain thousands of writing systems, symbols, emoji, typographic punctuation, and decorative letter styles. That is usually a strength, but older databases, import tools, filenames, and strict validation rules sometimes accept ASCII only.

Paste your text above to make it ASCII-safe. The default method first preserves readable equivalents, then removes anything that cannot be represented in ASCII. Choose Delete non-ASCII when you need a literal filter with no transliteration.

Unicode text is not the same as hidden text

This tool removes every non-ASCII character. If your text only behaves strangely after copy-paste, the less aggressive Invisible Character Remover can find zero-width spaces, direction marks, and unusual separators while leaving accented letters and emoji alone. To go the other way and turn ordinary letters into tiny superscript or small caps, use the Small Text Generator.

Frequently asked questions

What does the Unicode remover do?
It creates ASCII-only text. In the default conversion mode, readable equivalents are kept where possible: café becomes cafe, curly quotes become straight quotes, an em dash becomes a hyphen, and mathematical styled letters become ordinary letters. Characters without a useful ASCII equivalent, including emoji and most non-Latin scripts, are removed.
What is the difference between Convert to ASCII and Delete non-ASCII?
Convert to ASCII transliterates characters before cleaning, so résumé becomes resume. Delete non-ASCII removes each Unicode character directly, so the same word becomes rsum. Use conversion for readable prose and deletion when you need a strict character filter.
Will it remove emoji?
Yes. Emoji do not have dependable ASCII equivalents, so both modes remove them. The rest of the text and its normal spaces, tabs, and line breaks remain intact.
Does it remove invisible Unicode characters too?
Yes, the result is ASCII-only. If you want to identify hidden characters by name and code point before removing them, use the Invisible Character Remover instead; it is designed specifically for diagnosing zero-width and unusual spacing characters.

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