Remove Punctuation Tool
Remove all Unicode punctuation characters while keeping letters, digits, symbols and whitespace.
Description
Remove Unicode punctuation while preserving letters, numbers, symbols, emoji, and whitespace.
Unicode punctuation removal is useful for controlled text comparison and preprocessing, and covers far more characters than an ASCII comma-and-period list.
When to use Remove Punctuation Tool
- Prepare punctuation-insensitive text
- Remove Unicode quotation and sentence marks
- Test tokenization pipelines
How the calculation works
Every code point in Unicode general category P is deleted. Letters, marks, numbers, mathematical and currency symbols, emoji, and whitespace remain.
Interpreting the result
Deletion can merge tokens: `high-quality` becomes `highquality`. Replace punctuation with spaces instead when it represents a word boundary.
Important limitations
- The operation is destructive.
- Symbols such as +, =, and currency signs are not punctuation and remain.