How can I remove accents on a string?

Question

I have the following string

áéíóú

which I need to convert it to

aeiou

How can I achieve it? (I don't need to compare, I need the new string to save)

Answer 1

Try using COLLATE:

select 'áéíóú' collate SQL_Latin1_General_Cp1251_CS_AS

For Unicode data, try the following:

select cast(N'áéíóú' as varchar(max)) collate SQL_Latin1_General_Cp1251_CS_AS

I am not sure what you may lose in the translation when using the second approach.