Java tutorial
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent; import java.awt.event.ActionListener; import java.text.Normalizer; import javax.swing.JButton; import javax.swing.JFrame; import javax.swing.JLabel; import javax.swing.JPanel; import javax.swing.JTextField; public class RemoveAccents extends JFrame { public RemoveAccents() { setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE); JPanel pnl = new JPanel(); pnl.add(new JLabel("Enter text")); final JTextField txtText; txtText = new JTextField("to be removed"); pnl.add(txtText); JButton btnRemove = new JButton("Remove"); ActionListener al; al = new ActionListener() { public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { String text = txtText.getText(); text = Normalizer.normalize(text, Normalizer.Form.NFD); txtText.setText(text.replaceAll("[^\\p{ASCII}]", "")); } }; btnRemove.addActionListener(al); pnl.add(btnRemove); getContentPane().add(pnl); pack(); setVisible(true); } public static void main(String[] args) { new RemoveAccents(); } }