codeinc/strip-accents

A PHP library to remove accents and diacritics from strings

2.0.0 2026-04-15 18:58 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.2
• ext-mbstring: *

Requires (Dev)

• phpunit/phpunit: ^11.0

MIT

• Joan Fabrégat

README

A PHP library to remove accents and diacritics from strings.

Installation

composer require codeinc/strip-accents

Requires PHP 8.2 or later with the mbstring extension.

Usage

Strip accents

use CodeInc\StripAccents\StripAccents;

echo StripAccents::strip("C'est une super chaîne de caractères avec beaucoup d'accents");
// "C'est une super chaine de caracteres avec beaucoup d'accents"

echo StripAccents::strip("ÀÁÂÃÄÅÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÒÓÔÕÖÙÚÛÜÝàáâãäåçèéêëìíîïðòóôõöùúûüýÿ");
// "AAAAAACEEEEIIIIOOOOOUUUUYaaaaaaceeeeiiiieooooouuuuyy"

Strip accents and non-printable characters

use CodeInc\StripAccents\StripAccents;

echo StripAccents::stripNonPrint("ABC ÀÈÝ 是我这");
// "ABC AEY "

echo StripAccents::stripNonPrint("ABC ÀÈÝ 是我这", replaceWith: "-");
// "ABC AEY ---------" (each multibyte character is replaced per-byte)

Custom encoding

Both methods accept an encoding parameter (any encoding supported by htmlentities()):

echo StripAccents::strip("A strïng with àccénts", encoding: "iso-8859-1");

License

This library is published under the MIT license (see the LICENSE file).