Modifications

• amd support added
• changed german Umlaute: Ü to Ue, Ä to ae etc.
• added 'ß' to 'ss'

Latinize.js

Simple library to convert accents (diacritics) from strings to latin characters.

Is is a lookup table taken from http://jsperf.com/latinize packaged for node and browser. Visit the link to see more approaches.

Usage

node.js

var latinize = require('latinize');
latinize('naïve áéíóúýčďěňřšťžů'); // => 'naive aeiouycdenrstzu'

browser

<script src="../latinize.js"></script>
<script>
    document.write(latinize('naïve áéíóúýčďěňřšťžů'));
</script>