Writing French without accented characters?

Is there a system/convention to write French when there are no accented
characters available? In German, for example, it's possible: ü is
replaced by ue, ö by oe, ä by ae, eszet by ss. But of course French
uses a lot more accented characters.

Regards,
Pascal Damian

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