How to convert UTF-8 to US-Ascii in Java

You can do this with the following (from the NFD example in this Core Java Technology Tech Tip):

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