Transliterate German umlauts on the command line
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Task convert a UTF-8 German umlaut into the transliterated version e.g. ö becomes oe.
$ echo 'ä ö ü' | LANG=de_DE iconv -f UTF-8 -t ASCII//TRANSLIT ae oe ue
Of course you have to make sure the input is not say Swedish!