Remove accents in a Javascript string

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To remove accents (diacritics) from a String using Javascript, follow these steps:

We have the following String:

var text = "Camión";

To remove punctuation marks, we need to use the following function (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/normalize):

function stripAccents(s) {
    return s.normalize("NFD").replace(/[\u0300-\u036f]/g, "");
}

This way, when using the function, we can remove the accents:

var text = stripAccents("Camión");
function stripAccents(s) {
    return s.normalize("NFD").replace(/[\u0300-\u036f]/g, "");
}
// returns "Camion"

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