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onmyway133
onmyway133

Reputation: 48115

How to remove accent from string in WP7

I want to remove accent (diacritic) from string in Windows Phone 7. The solution here works for .NET (desktop version). However, WP7 string has no Normalize method.

Someone suggest change from string to byte, but I dont know what he means. How to remove accent ?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 782

Answers (1)

Martin Suchan
Martin Suchan

Reputation: 10620

I use this: 

public static string RemoveAccents(this string accentedStr)
{
    byte[] tempBytes = Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-8").GetBytes(accentedStr);
    return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(tempBytes, 0, tempBytes.Length);
}

Edit: this solution works in Windows 8 apps, but not in Windows Phone. The best solution I have found so far is this manual one:
http://invokeit.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/how-to-remove-diatrics-accent-marks-in-windows-phone-7-x/

Upvotes: 4

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