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Try this clip, if your code is in Unicode-land:

# Function: translate_diacriticals()
#
# Remove diacritical marks (e.g. ümlauts, hebrew vowels, etc)
# for use in fuzzy matches, or for avoiding excess information loss
# when encoding to restricted character sets like ASCII.
#
# See also:
#   http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=835238
#   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diacritic
#   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence
#   http://unicode.org/reports/tr15/
#   http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3454.html
#
sub translate_diacriticals($)
{
    my $str = Unicode::Normalize::NFKD($_[0]);
    $str =~ s/\p{NonspacingMark}//g;
    return $str;
}
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