About the Remove Special Characters
File names, form fields and import routines often reject anything that is not a letter or a digit. This tool keeps letters, numbers and whitespace and deletes the rest, working from Unicode character categories rather than an ASCII whitelist, so café keeps its é and Greek, Cyrillic or Japanese text survives intact while the symbols around it go.
What gets deleted is broader than it first looks. Every punctuation mark and every symbol is in scope, which includes hyphens, underscores, slashes, at signs, currency signs, mathematical operators and emoji. e-mail becomes email, Order #8841 keeps only the words and the digits, and a product name such as T-Shirt (Blue/XL) collapses to TShirt BlueXL, with the words run together where the slash used to separate them. When those separators need to survive as spaces, convert them first with Find and Replace.
Whitespace is preserved, so words stay apart and line breaks survive and the text remains readable. A good use is turning a messy product title or document heading into something a file system and a content system will both accept. Follow with Remove Accents for pure ASCII, or Slug Generator when the target is a URL.
How to use
- Paste the text.
- Copy the cleaned result.
- Follow with Remove Accents for pure ASCII.
Common questions
- Are letters and numbers kept?
- Yes, along with spaces. Everything classed as punctuation or a symbol is removed.
- Does it keep accented letters?
- Yes. It uses Unicode letter categories, so café keeps the é. Use Remove Accents to strip those too.
- Is the euro sign removed?
- Yes, currency symbols are removed as symbols.