How to remove all lines containing non-standard English letters using Notepad ++?

Question

I have an English word list that needs some fixation.

There are a few words containing the apostrophe and some words containing accented letters, etc. etc.

I don’t know all the non-standard English letters used in the word list, so I want to be safe and just delete all lines containing non-standard English letters.

How to do it with Notepad ++?

Answer 1

Try the following:

• Ctrl + H to open the Replace dialog box
• In Find whatenter:^.*[^a-zA-Z\n\s]+.*$
• In Replace with,, type \n, or leave blank
• : Regular expression
• replace all

Answer 2

, ascii? , :

[^\x00-\x7F]+