gabriel-p / removenonasciichars

Replace and/or remove non-ASCII characters

RemoveNonAsciiChars

Simple plugin to replace non-ASCII characters to ASCII by removing accents, and remaining non-ASCII characters.

Turns:

á à â ä ñ

into

a a a a n

and removes characters like:

¡ ¿ ß

Installation

Installation via Sublime Package Control.

1. Install Sublime Package Control
2. From inside Sublime Text, open Package Control's Command Pallet: CTRL+SHIFT+P (Windows, Linux) or CMD+SHIFT+P (Mac).
3. Type install package and hit Return. A list of available packages will be displayed.
4. Type RemoveNonAsciiChars and hit Return.

Using

1. Bring out the command palette with CTRL+SHIFT+P (Windows, Linux) or CMD+SHIFT+P on Mac.
2. Type Remove Non Ascii Chars until you see the commands.
3. Select Remove non Ascii characters (File) for removing in the entire file, or Remove non Ascii characters (Select) for removing only in the selected text.

Author

• Gabriel Perren - @Gabriel-p

Original idea and code by Keith Hall.

License

GPL-v3.0.

removenonasciichars's Issues

Suggest additional replacements

Can replace double quotes like “ and ” with "?
These are frequently there in text copied from web pages

Currently the characters are removed

Remove control characters (0x00 - 0x19)?

I tried stripping out ASCII control characters (e.g. less than 0x20) from a file, like this:

It did not remove them. Any chance you could add that feature?

Remove non ascii chars only in selection

Hi, it would be great if this package could remove non-ASCII characters only in selection(s). Often times I need to remove only in for example one sentence or in one line, the whole file is not very useful for me.