Remove non ascii character

i need a SQL or Procedure that will search non ascii character in data and update the data by removing it
Suppose there is table TABLE1 with Column NAME
it contain number of row and few has non ascii character eg 'CharacterÄr'
My sql or procedure should be able to search 'CharacterÄr' and update the row with 'Character'
i.e. removing the non ascii character 'Ä' from the data

Hi,
Okay, in that case:
SELECT str
,      REGEXP_REPLACE ( str
                      , '[^[:cntrl:] -~]'
                      )   AS new_str
FROM    table_x
or, to actually change the rows that contain the bad characters:
UPDATE table_x
SET     str = REGEXP_REPLACE ( str
                             , '[^[:cntrl:] -~]'
WHERE   REGEXP_LIKE ( str
                    , '[^[:cntrl:] -~]'

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