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Removing all (or perhaps just "common") non-printable Unicode characters - except line breaks - from a string in JavaScript. (Adaptation of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21284228/removing-control-characters-in-utf-8-string?lq=1)
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const trimmed = problematicString.replace(/[\x00-\x09\x0B-\x0C\x0E-\x1F\x7F-\x9F]/g, '');
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