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cool trick to find all non-ASCII characters in UNIX
pcregrep --color='auto' -n "[\x80-\xFF]" filename.xml
See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3001177/how-do-i-grep-for-all-non-ascii-characters-in-unix
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