diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index ea008d0ef8..017a32cd11 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1197,12 +1197,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn 2.0.75",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "deunicode"
-version = "1.6.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "339544cc9e2c4dc3fc7149fd630c5f22263a4fdf18a98afd0075784968b5cf00"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "dialoguer"
 version = "0.11.0"
@@ -3123,7 +3117,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "crossterm",
  "csv",
  "data-encoding",
- "deunicode",
  "dialoguer",
  "digest",
  "dirs",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index b5a209c4cb..9dd07f6902 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -81,7 +81,6 @@ crossbeam-channel = "0.5.8"
 crossterm = "0.27"
 csv = "1.3"
 ctrlc = "3.4"
-deunicode = "1.6.0"
 dialoguer = { default-features = false, version = "0.11" }
 digest = { default-features = false, version = "0.10" }
 dirs = "5.0"
diff --git a/crates/nu-command/Cargo.toml b/crates/nu-command/Cargo.toml
index 23e3c31166..7c33a60a23 100644
--- a/crates/nu-command/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/nu-command/Cargo.toml
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ chrono-humanize = { workspace = true }
 chrono-tz = { workspace = true }
 crossterm = { workspace = true }
 csv = { workspace = true }
-deunicode = { workspace = true }
 dialoguer = { workspace = true, default-features = false, features = ["fuzzy-select"] }
 digest = { workspace = true, default-features = false }
 dtparse = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/crates/nu-command/src/default_context.rs b/crates/nu-command/src/default_context.rs
index 88b229fc48..d98ac41f53 100644
--- a/crates/nu-command/src/default_context.rs
+++ b/crates/nu-command/src/default_context.rs
@@ -199,7 +199,6 @@ pub fn add_shell_command_context(mut engine_state: EngineState) -> EngineState {
             Str,
             StrCapitalize,
             StrContains,
-            StrDeunicode,
             StrDistance,
             StrDowncase,
             StrEndswith,
diff --git a/crates/nu-command/src/strings/str_/deunicode.rs b/crates/nu-command/src/strings/str_/deunicode.rs
deleted file mode 100644
index 48423c2be1..0000000000
--- a/crates/nu-command/src/strings/str_/deunicode.rs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,98 +0,0 @@
-use deunicode::deunicode;
-use nu_cmd_base::input_handler::{operate, CellPathOnlyArgs};
-use nu_engine::command_prelude::*;
-use nu_protocol::engine::StateWorkingSet;
-
-#[derive(Clone)]
-pub struct SubCommand;
-
-impl Command for SubCommand {
-    fn name(&self) -> &str {
-        "str deunicode"
-    }
-
-    fn signature(&self) -> Signature {
-        Signature::build("str deunicode")
-            .input_output_types(vec![(Type::String, Type::String)])
-            .category(Category::Strings)
-    }
-
-    fn description(&self) -> &str {
-        "Convert Unicode string to pure ASCII."
-    }
-
-    fn search_terms(&self) -> Vec<&str> {
-        vec!["convert", "ascii"]
-    }
-
-    fn is_const(&self) -> bool {
-        true
-    }
-
-    fn run(
-        &self,
-        engine_state: &EngineState,
-        stack: &mut Stack,
-        call: &Call,
-        input: PipelineData,
-    ) -> Result<PipelineData, ShellError> {
-        let cell_paths: Vec<CellPath> = call.rest(engine_state, stack, 0)?;
-        let args = CellPathOnlyArgs::from(cell_paths);
-
-        operate(action, args, input, call.head, engine_state.signals())
-    }
-
-    fn run_const(
-        &self,
-        working_set: &StateWorkingSet,
-        call: &Call,
-        input: PipelineData,
-    ) -> Result<PipelineData, ShellError> {
-        let cell_paths: Vec<CellPath> = call.rest_const(working_set, 0)?;
-        let args = CellPathOnlyArgs::from(cell_paths);
-
-        operate(
-            action,
-            args,
-            input,
-            call.head,
-            working_set.permanent().signals(),
-        )
-    }
-
-    fn examples(&self) -> Vec<Example> {
-        vec![Example {
-            description: "deunicode a string",
-            example: "'A…B' | str deunicode",
-            result: Some(Value::test_string("A...B")),
-        }]
-    }
-}
-
-fn action(input: &Value, _args: &CellPathOnlyArgs, head: Span) -> Value {
-    match input {
-        Value::String { val, .. } => Value::string(deunicode(val), head),
-        Value::Error { .. } => input.clone(),
-        _ => Value::error(
-            ShellError::OnlySupportsThisInputType {
-                exp_input_type: "string".into(),
-                wrong_type: input.get_type().to_string(),
-                dst_span: head,
-                src_span: input.span(),
-            },
-            head,
-        ),
-    }
-}
-
-#[cfg(test)]
-mod tests {
-    use super::*;
-
-    #[test]
-    fn test_examples() {
-        use crate::test_examples;
-
-        test_examples(SubCommand {})
-    }
-}
diff --git a/crates/nu-command/src/strings/str_/mod.rs b/crates/nu-command/src/strings/str_/mod.rs
index b9290ada2c..fb34ace833 100644
--- a/crates/nu-command/src/strings/str_/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/nu-command/src/strings/str_/mod.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 mod case;
 mod contains;
-mod deunicode;
 mod distance;
 mod ends_with;
 mod expand;
@@ -16,7 +15,6 @@ mod trim;
 
 pub use case::*;
 pub use contains::SubCommand as StrContains;
-pub use deunicode::SubCommand as StrDeunicode;
 pub use distance::SubCommand as StrDistance;
 pub use ends_with::SubCommand as StrEndswith;
 pub use expand::SubCommand as StrExpand;