non ascii special char remove from csv file

Question

While i am editing csv file in linux special character look like £stackoverflow, £unixbox,£query. My query is how to remove  from csv file.

Input: £stackoverflow, £unixbox,£query Output: £stackoverflow, £unixbox,£query

Observations of linux box: currently linux window translation setting is ISO-8859-1, while i am changing the window setting--->translation-->UTF-8 then open the same file using vi editior  char being disappeared.I have tried iconv command as well but didn't work.It may be the reason that i am conv the file ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 but by default setting of linux is ISO-8859-1 so it is showing me  it is not removing this char.How to handle it to remove the same.

Answer 1

You can try the below Perl solution. This removes all the ordinal values that are not in the range of 32 to 127 (which contains the ascii text)

$ echo "£stackoverflow, £unixbox,£query Output: £stackoverflow, £unixbox,£query" | perl -pe ' s/[^\x20-\x7f]//g '
stackoverflow, unixbox,query Output: stackoverflow, unixbox,query
$

EDIT:

To remove just Â, use

$ echo "Â" | perl -pe ' s/./sprintf("%x |",ord($&))/eg '  # Find the underlying ordinal values for  
c3 |82 |

$ echo "£stackoverflow, £unixbox,£query" | perl -pe ' s/\xc3\x82//g ' #removing it using s///
£stackoverflow, £unixbox,£query

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