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-unac is a C library and command that removes accents from a string
-It provides a command line interface that removes accents from a
-input flow or a string given in argument (unaccent command).
-In the library function and the command, the charset of the input
-is specified as an argument.
+unac (remove accents from text)
+
+unac is a C library (libunac) and command (unaccent) that removes
+accents from a string of text; it replaces accented characters in the
+given character set with their unaccented (ASCII) equivalents.
+
+See also: perl/perl-text-unaccent, for a Perl module based on this.