title: How to strip accents?
body: <p>I have an android app that takes an ISO8859-1 (Latin1) file with data.
  Essentially, Portuguese words whose characters I want to convert to the un-accented counterparts.</p>
  
  <p>Yes, I googled a lot for this, and tried the </p>
  
  <pre><code>      Normalizer.normalize(input, Normalizer.Form.NFD);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>trick, and yes, I tried also</p>
  
  <pre><code>      String.replaceAll("[áâã]", "a").replaceAll(....)....
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but the string remains accented. I also tried messing with the project encodings, but not sure where to change (if this is a solution at all).</p>