import re


def filter_text(text):
    """
    Filter out a list of characters from _text_.

    Parameters
    ----------
    text : str
        The string to be filtered

    Returns
    -------
    text :  str
        The filtered string
    """
    return re.sub(
        '[\n \[\]"\'.,:!?/+\-–\\\\*#()%&=_§€$@<>;|'
        '©0123456789»«®…”“•�°←→„▶\x96\xa0\t]+',
        ' ',
        text
    ).strip()