feat(removeAccents): add removeAccents functions with test (#163)

Implements method to remove accentuated characters from a string. Based
on: https://stackoverflow.com/a/37511463/2002514

Closes #161

Author: MauricioRobayo

src/index.js

@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ import timeDifference from './timeDifference'
 import isPrime from './is-prime'
 import swapElements from './swapElements'
 import reverse from './reverse'
+import removeAccents from './remove-accents'
 
 export {
   isOdd,
@@ -114,4 +115,5 @@ export {
   isPrime,
   swapElements,
   reverse,
+  removeAccents,
 }

src/remove-accents.js

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+export default removeAccents
+
+/**
+ * Original Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/37511463/2002514
+ *
+ * This method will remove accentuated characters from a string.
+ *
+ * @param {String} str - The string to remove accentuated characters from.
+ * @return {String} - The given string without accentuated characters.
+ */
+function removeAccents(str) {
+  return str.normalize('NFD').replace(/[\u0300-\u036f]/g, '')
+}

test/remove-accents.test.js

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+import test from 'ava'
+import {removeAccents} from '../src'
+
+test('remove accentuated characters', t => {
+  const original = 'Español: Comí Crème Brulée el sábado'
+  const expected = 'Espanol: Comi Creme Brulee el sabado'
+  const actual = removeAccents(original)
+  t.deepEqual(actual, expected)
+})