Getting rid of Unicode characters

[Robert Sneidar]

Plaintext will not remove characters, which is what he wants. What he REALLY wants is something to remove ann non-printing characters from a chunk. I cannot help but believe there is a regex way to do this. 

Bob


On Feb 18, 2014, at 10:04 AM, Devin Asay <devin_asay at byu.edu> wrote:

> 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
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> 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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