Question

How do I convert Æ and á into a regular English char with Java ? What I have is something like this : Local TV from Paraná. How to convert it to [Parana] ?

Answer 1

Look at icu4j or the JDK 1.6 Normalizer:

public String removeAccents(String text) {
    return Normalizer.normalize(text, Normalizer.Form.NFD)
                     .replaceAll("\\p{InCombiningDiacriticalMarks}+", "");
}