Getting rid of Unicode characters

[Devin Asay]

Skip,

Have you looked at the plaintext property of fields? I think it converts non-convertible characters to a '?' It might be a tool you could use.

Devin

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> On Feb 17, 2014, at 2:20 PM, "Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel" <skip at magicgate.com> wrote:
> 
> Thank you!  This should give me something to go on.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> On 17/02/14 22:15, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel wrote:
>> 
>>> Is there a way to scan a field for "extra" characters or non-English
>>> characters?  I am trying to create a verification process for some
>>> imported
>>> text and get rid of these characters in one swoop.
>>> 
>>> Any guidance here would be greatly appreciated.... as always!
>>> 
>>> Thanks again,
>>> 
>>> SKIP
>> Have a play around with my stack available here: http://forums.runrev.com/
>> viewtopic.php?f=5&t=18869
>> 
>> Richmond.
>> 
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