Removing accents and diacritics from a word

From: Asmus Freytag via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 10:37:53 -0700

A question has come up in another context:

Is there any linguistic term for describing the process of removing accents and diacritics from a word to create its “base form”, e.g. São Tomé to Sao Tome?

The linguistic term "string normalization" appears not that preferable in a computing context.

Any ideas?

A./

Received on Wed Jul 17 2019 - 12:38:11 CDT