Text Processing
Convert any Unicode text to plain ASCII: strip accents (é→e, ñ→n), romanize Cyrillic/Greek, and transliterate Chinese to pinyin (北京→Bei Jing). Drops emojis and symbols that have no ASCII equivalent.
Call this tool from your code in three languages.
curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/unicode-to-ascii-transliterator' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"text":"Café 北京 Привет","keepUnknown":"drop"}'Send a POST request with your inputs as JSON. File parameters require a separate upload first.
POST https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/unicode-to-ascii-transliterator| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| text | textarea | Yes | — |
| keepUnknown | select | No | — |
HTML result
{
"result": "<div>Processed HTML content</div>",
"error": "Error message (optional)",
"message": "Notification message (optional)",
"metadata": {
"key": "value"
}
}Add this tool to your Model Context Protocol server so AI agents can list and call it.
Add this block to your MCP client configuration:
{
"mcpServers": {
"elysiatools-unicode-to-ascii-transliterator": {
"name": "unicode-to-ascii-transliterator",
"description": "Convert any Unicode text to plain ASCII: strip accents (é→e, ñ→n), romanize Cyrillic/Greek, and transliterate Chinese to pinyin (北京→Bei Jing). Drops emojis and symbols that have no ASCII equivalent.",
"baseUrl": "https://api.elysiatools.com/mcp/sse?toolId=unicode-to-ascii-transliterator",
"command": "",
"args": [],
"env": {},
"isActive": true,
"type": "sse"
}
}
}After connecting to the SSE endpoint, list the exposed tools:
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": 1,
"method": "tools/list"
}Invoke the tool by its id, passing arguments built from its parameters:
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": 2,
"method": "tools/call",
"params": {
"name": "unicode-to-ascii-transliterator",
"arguments": {
"text": "Café 北京 Привет",
"keepUnknown": "drop"
}
}
}Questions or issues? Contact [email protected]