diff --git a/src/common/stringTools.cpp b/src/common/stringTools.cpp
index 74aea6104..308765036 100644
--- a/src/common/stringTools.cpp
+++ b/src/common/stringTools.cpp
@@ -33,6 +33,19 @@ void kiwix::loadICUExternalTables() {
 #endif
 }
 
+std::string kiwix::removeAccents(const std::string &text) {
+  loadICUExternalTables();
+  ucnv_setDefaultName("UTF-8");
+  UErrorCode status = U_ZERO_ERROR;
+  Transliterator *removeAccentsTrans = Transliterator::createInstance("Lower; NFD; [:M:] remove; NFC", UTRANS_FORWARD, status);
+  UnicodeString ustring = UnicodeString(text.c_str());
+  removeAccentsTrans->transliterate(ustring);
+  delete removeAccentsTrans;
+  std::string unaccentedText;
+  ustring.toUTF8String(unaccentedText);
+  return unaccentedText;
+}
+
 #ifndef __ANDROID__
 
 /* Prepare integer for display */
@@ -59,19 +72,6 @@ std::string kiwix::beautifyFileSize(const unsigned int number) {
   }
 }
 
-std::string kiwix::removeAccents(const std::string &text) {
-  loadICUExternalTables();
-  ucnv_setDefaultName("UTF-8");
-  UErrorCode status = U_ZERO_ERROR;
-  Transliterator *removeAccentsTrans = Transliterator::createInstance("Lower; NFD; [:M:] remove; NFC", UTRANS_FORWARD, status);
-  UnicodeString ustring = UnicodeString(text.c_str());
-  removeAccentsTrans->transliterate(ustring);
-  delete removeAccentsTrans;
-  std::string unaccentedText;
-  ustring.toUTF8String(unaccentedText);
-  return unaccentedText;
-}
-
 void kiwix::printStringInHexadecimal(UnicodeString s) {
   std::cout << std::showbase << std::hex;
   for (int i=0; i<s.length(); i++) {
diff --git a/src/common/stringTools.h b/src/common/stringTools.h
index bb66832f0..75b3de7cd 100644
--- a/src/common/stringTools.h
+++ b/src/common/stringTools.h
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ namespace kiwix {
 
 #ifndef __ANDROID__
 
-  std::string removeAccents(const std::string &text);
   std::string beautifyInteger(const unsigned int number);
   std::string beautifyFileSize(const unsigned int number);
   std::string urlEncode(const std::string &c);
@@ -51,6 +50,7 @@ namespace kiwix {
 
 #endif
 
+  std::string removeAccents(const std::string &text);
   void loadICUExternalTables();
   std::string urlDecode(const std::string &c);