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Fluffy
Asked: 2015-12-05 06:04:43 +0800 CST

How do I replace "fancy" unicode chars with their ascii equivalends?

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Is there a tool to replace fancy utf chars like U+2018 (LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK), U+2019 (RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK) with normal quote chars: ', etc. like lodash deburr command does?

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  1. Best Answer

    You can use iconv

    NAME
       iconv - Convert encoding of given files from one encoding to another

SYNOPSIS
       iconv -f encoding [-t encoding] [inputfile]...

    e.g.

    $ echo "some ‘fancy’ chars" | iconv -f utf-8 -t ascii//translit
some 'fancy' chars
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