Remove special characters in string

Hi all,
I'm Portuguese, and in our language we use special characters in words like "João or "Sónia".
I need to take off these special characters, which means I want to have the same words like "Joao" and "Sonia", without the characters "~" or "´".
Do you have any idea how can I do this?
Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Sónia Gonçalves

Hi,
But I want to make this generic, I don't want to replace character by character.
If I give a string in the program, I want to search all ocurrences of these special characters and replace them.
How can I do this?
Thanks.
Best regards,
Sónia Gonçalves

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