Skip/remove non-ascii character with sed

Question

Chip,Dirkland,DrobæSphere Inc,cdirkland@hotmail.com,usa

I\'ve been trying to use sed to modify email addresses in a .csv but the line ab

Answer 1

In this case there is a way to just skip non-ASCII chars, not bothering with removing.

LANG=C sed /someemailpattern/

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=440419 and Will sed (and others) corrupt non-ASCII files?.