Re: Is there a way to "asciify" a string?

[tomas]

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On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 02:36:27PM +0200, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
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> On 2018-05-27, at 09:36, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

[...]

> > Sigh :-)
> 
> I understand that.

[...]
> (BTW, if there is some command-line utility to do that, that's fine
> too.)

I don't know (yet?) about Emacs, but iconv might do the trick:

  tomas@trotzki:~$ echo Überbäcker | iconv -f utf-8 -t ascii//TRANSLIT
  Uberbacker

Cheers
- -- t
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