Easy way to remove accents from a Unicode string?

Question

I want to change this sentence :

Et ça sera sa moitié.

To :

Et ca sera sa moitie.

Is there an easy way to do this in Java, like I would do in Objective-C ?

NSString *str = @"Et ça sera sa moitié.";
NSData *data = [str dataUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding allowLossyConversion:YES];
NSString *newStr = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];

Answer 1

Finally, I've solved it by using the Normalizer class.

import java.text.Normalizer;

public static String stripAccents(String s) 
{
    s = Normalizer.normalize(s, Normalizer.Form.NFD);
    s = s.replaceAll("[\\p{InCombiningDiacriticalMarks}]", "");
    return s;
}