A build-in replace function would indeed be useful. I'm replacing stuff in stuff now by using a text editor (not that efficient I know but it works for now) and this takes lots of time and is an extra action that with a replace function like jooel suggested could be build into the script that needs the input without weird characters. This eliminates an action and therefore eliminating (some) errors in replacing stuff and speeding things up a bit.

My two cents are in the bucket. Even a replace UDF would do for the time being.
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