[sword-devel] testing for diacritics

[Matěj Cepl]

On 2015-08-27, 22:22 GMT, Peter von Kaehne wrote:
> Is there a clever and reliable way one could test in a given OSIS text
> to see whether it contains diacritically enhanced texts or not? Perl,
> preferably. 

What about the following?

    $ iconv -f utf8 -t us-ascii//translit file.xml \
        |diff -u - file.xml

No need for Perl!

Matěj

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