Greetings, I am able to get a english word list in <file> by using the following command cat <file> | tr -sc A-Za-z '\012' My question is how to specify unicode character and ASCII. Specifically text text file containing 3 byte sequence starting with \x0e in the tr command. I am able to see the character using: echo -e '\xe0\xa5\xbf' What regex incantation would make tr give the results I want? I am new to unicode. Regards, Rajagopal