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/**
* Remove diacritics (accent and other marks) on characters, and dissociate double characters.
* Based on the character map of http://lehelk.com/2011/05/06/script-to-remove-diacritics/
* but per-character walk (improved performance).
*
* Licensed under WTFPL v2 http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/COPYING
*/
var removeDiacritics = (function() {
var diacritics = {"\u24B6":"A","\uFF21":"A","\u00C0":"A","\u00C1":"A","\u00C2":"A","\u1EA6":"A","\u1EA4":"A","\u1EAA":"A","\u1EA8":"A","\u00C3":"A","\u0100":"A","\u0102":"A","\u1EB0":"A","\u1EAE":"A","\u1EB4":"A","\u1EB2":"A","\u0226":"A","\u01E0":"A","\u00C4":"A","\u01DE":"A","\u1EA2":"A","\u00C5":"A","\u01FA":"A","\u01CD":"A","\u0200":"A","\u0202":"A","\u1EA0":"A","\u1EAC":"A","\u1EB6":"A","\u1E00":"A","\u0104":"A","\u023A":"A","\u2C6F":"A","\uA732":"AA","\u00C6":"AE","\u01FC":"AE","\u01E2":"AE","\uA734":"AO","\uA736":"AU","\uA738":"AV","\uA73A":"AV","\uA73C":"AY","\u24B7":"B","\uFF22":"B","\u1E02":"B","\u1E04":"B","\u1E06":"B","\u0243":"B","\u0182":"B","\u0181":"B",