REReplace to remove junk characters

hi. i would like a regular expression to remove all weird characters like this on the line below


if you can see it.
And like all those other non-english characters like the letter a with two dots on top etc etc.

I have a string with some text and html code. I need to remove these junk characters from it. Please help.

I've found these pages helpful when dealing with regular expressions.

http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=ColdFusion_Documentation&file=00000982.htm

http://www.activsoftware.com/resources/discussion/messages.cfm/id/1036

http://www.firstserv.com/support/coldfusion/documentation/coldfusion_5/Developing_ColdFusion_Applications/regexp7.html

I've tried various methods and there just seems no way to match those "junk" characters... never found any documentation in relation to that either.

This is really a question about regular expressions and not a CF question. There are whole books and web sites about regular expressions so I'd start there, maybe with a Google search. I'm not much of a regex person myself or I'd offer a solution, but regex, as you may have guessed, can be a very advanced topic.

Found a simple solution that actually works!



Still need to test it more extensively but seems fine!
Ah finally! :P

For an amazing forum on regex check this out:
http://regexadvice.com/forums/

Cheers!
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