diff --git a/misctools/README.md b/misctools/README.md
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+# Outils divers
+
+
+## non ascii ?
+
diff --git a/misctools/nonascii.c b/misctools/nonascii.c
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+/*
+ *		nonascii.c 
+ *
+ *	new Mon 03 Oct 2022 05:42:42 PM CEST
+ */
+
+#include  <stdio.h>
+#include  <stdlib.h>
+
+int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+int		input, linenum, count;
+
+linenum = 1;
+count   = 0;
+
+while (EOF != (input=getc(stdin))) {
+
+	if ('\n' == input)	linenum++;
+
+	if ((input < 0) || (input>127)) {
+		fprintf(stderr, "non ascii 0x%x line %d\n", 
+					input, linenum);
+		count++;
+		}
+	}
+if (count) {
+	fprintf(stderr, "%d non-ascii chars\n", count);
+	exit(1);
+	}
+
+return 0;
+}
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