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::Sigh. You aren't wrong. We already have [[Strip control codes and extended characters from a string]] and [[XXXX redacted]] which are essentially this same operation with minuscule differences in ''which'' characters to remove. --[[User:Thundergnat|Thundergnat]] ([[User talk:Thundergnat|talk]]) 18:07, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
::Sigh. You aren't wrong. We already have [[Strip control codes and extended characters from a string]] and [[XXXX redacted]] which are essentially this same operation with minuscule differences in ''which'' characters to remove. --[[User:Thundergnat|Thundergnat]] ([[User talk:Thundergnat|talk]]) 18:07, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

:::I propose then, that we rename it, as Nigel suggests, to '''Remove a defined subset of glyphs from a string''', and provide a fractionally less minimal description, requiring that the particular exclusion list is specified and parameterised.
:::That should, at least, forestall any further trivial variants, without imposing much (or any) editing on the existing drafts. [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 19:05, 13 August 2020 (UTC)