strip_accents
🔗NAME
strip_accents
🔗SYNOPSIS
strip accents from characters
🔗USAGE
local ds = require "lib/dtutils.string"
local result = ds.strip_accents(str)
str - string - the string with characters that need accents removed
🔗DESCRIPTION
strip_accents removes accents from accented characters returning the unaccented character.
🔗RETURN VALUE
result - string - the string containing unaccented characters
🔗REFERENCE
Copied from https://forums.coronalabs.com/topic/43048-remove-special-characters-from-string/