How to replace Unicode characters with ASCII

Question

I have the following command to replace Unicode characters with ASCII ones.

sed -i \'s/Ã/A/g\'

The problem is Ã isn\'t recognized

Answer 1

There is also uconv, from ICU.

Examples:

• uconv -x "::NFD; [:Nonspacing Mark:] > ; ::NFC;": to remove accents
• uconv -x "::Latin; ::Latin-ASCII;": for a transliteration latin/ascii
• uconv -x "::Latin; ::Latin-ASCII; ([^\x00-\x7F]) > ;": for a transliteration latin/ascii and removal of remaining code points > 0x7F
• ...

echo "À l'école ☠" | uconv -x "::Latin; ::Latin-ASCII; ([^\x00-\x7F]) > ;" gives: A l'ecole