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> From: Roland Winkler <winkler@gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:45:33 -0500
> 
> On Tue, Aug 27 2019, Joost Kremers wrote:
> > I know that stripping accents is more easily said than done, so
> > perhaps this is not really a bug at all but intended behaviour,
> > which I would understand.
> 
> Stripping accents is really not a matter specific to BibTeX.
> (I vaguely remember there was a thread on this list discussing this
> topic some time ago.)
> 
> If there was a generic function strip-accents, then BibTeX mode could
> certainly use it within its bibtex-generate-autokey machinery.

I don't think we have such a function, but it shouldn't be hard to
write one, using the facilities in ucs-normalize.el.