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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