How to replace Unicode characters with ASCII

Question

I have the following command to replace Unicode characters with ASCII ones.

sed -i \'s/Ã/A/g\'

The problem is Ã isn\'t recognized

Answer 1

Try setting LANG=C and then run it over the Unicode range:
echo "hi ☠ there ☠" | LANG=C sed "s/[\x80-\xFF]//g"