I'm afraid, the process of taking NFD followed by removing \pM characters
(remove_accent() as below) would remove marks other than accents too much.
Say, it replaces '≠' (U+2260, <NOT EQUAL TO>) with '=' (<EQUALS SIGN>) since a mathematic "negation slash" is encoded by U+0338 <COMBINING LONG SOLIDUS OVERLAY> which is to be removed.
Also, although they are not accents, it's unclear (and quite language-dependent)
what should be done with ligatures.
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