diacritics-neutralise - "s.replace is not a function" error when string column contains pure integer value

I have a DataTable with (ajax) data loaded in one column which normally contains values of type string but sometimes contains integer values. E.g.:

{
  id: 1
  name: "Company A"
  has_access: "1"
},
{
  id: 2
  name: "Company B"
  has_access: "1"
},
{
  id: 1
  name: 727
  has_access: 1
}

In the above, the third company is called 727, which unfortunately is returned as an integer type rather than string in the JSON. diacritics-neutralise hits a snag when it reaches processing this entry and gives an error: s.replace is not a function

I managed to change the back-end which generates the JSON so that it ensures 727 is always a string ("727") - that has been my solution here. However, it may be worth making the plugin more resilient to this situation by updating the removeDiacritics function to cast s to a string to ensure it's never caught off-guard:

function removeDiacritics ( s ) {
  for (var i=0, l=diacriticsMap.length; i<l; i++) {
    s = String(s).replace(diacriticsMap[i].letters, diacriticsMap[i].base);
  }
  return s; 
}

The above worked for me before using the server-side solution mentioned above.

Start with the diacritics-neutralise plugin and locate the removeDiacritics function described in the issue. Reproduce the failure with a numeric value in a DataTable string column, then verify that diacritics processing completes without the s.replace error and preserves the expected value.