NAME

       unaccent - remove accents from input stream or a string

SYNOPSIS

       unaccent [--debug_low] [--debug_high] [-h] charset [string] [expected]

DESCRIPTION

       With  a  single  argument,  unaccent reads data from stdin, replaces accented letters by their unaccented
       equivalent and writes the result on stdout.  If the  second  argument  ('string')  is  provided  unaccent
       transforms  it by replacing accented letters by their unaccented equivalent. The result is printed on the
       standard output.  The charset of the input string or the  data  read  from  stdin  is  specified  by  the
       'charset' argument (ISO-8859-15 for instance). The output is printed using the same charset.

       If  the  'expected'  argument  is  provided,  the  output string is compared to it. If they are not equal
       unaccent exits on error.

       unaccent relies on the iconv(3) library to convert from the specified charset to UTF-16BE (or  UTF-16  if
       UTF-16BE  is  not  available). You should check the manual pages for available charsets. On GNU/Linux the
       command

       iconv -l

       shows all available charsets.

OPTIONS

       --debug_low
              Prints human  readable  information  about  the  unaccentuation  process.  See  unac(3)  for  more
              information.

       --debug_high
              Prints  very  detailed  information  about  the  unaccentuation  process.   See  unac(3)  for more
              information.

       --help -h
              Prints a short usage and exits.

EXAMPLES

       Remove accents from the string été and check that the result is ete.

       unaccent ISO-8859-1 été ete

       Remove accents from file myfile and put the result in file myfile.unaccent

       unaccent ISO-8859-1 < myfile > myfile.unaccent

SEE ALSO

       unac(3), iconv(3)

AUTHOR

       Loic Dachary loic@senga.org
       http://www.senga.org/unac/

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