New answers tagged character
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This would only replace single quotes with underscores:
for f in *; do mv "$f" "${f//'/_}"; done
This would only keep alphanumeric ASCII characters, underscores, and periods:
for f in *; do mv "$f" "$(sed 's/[^0-9A-Za-z_.]/_/g' <<< "$f")"; done
Locales like en_US.UTF-8 use the ASCII collation order on OS X, but [[:alnum:]] and \w also match ...
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If you have a specific set of characters that you want to keep, tr works very well.
For example
tr -cd 'A-Za-z0-9_-'
Will remove any characters not in the set of characters listed. (The -d means delete, and the -c means the complement of the characters listed: in other words, any character not listed gets deleted.)
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Are you opening /System/Library/Input Methods/CharacterPalette.app/ directly? If it is opened directly, double-clicking doesn't seem to insert characters.
In any case, you could try running killall CharacterPalette or opening the character viewer from the input menu instead of the menu bars of applications.
Characters can also be inserted with drag and ...
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