what's the simplest way to remove accent in C#?

Asked Jul 03 '12 at 14:50

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How do I remove diacritics (accents) from a string in .NET?
Removing diacritics in Silverlight (String.Normalize issue)

I want to remove accent from a string in Silverlight application, for example, convert Renée to Renee. one way is try to use following APIs:

System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding
System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString

but System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString is not available for silverlight framework.

what's is the simplest way to do it in C#?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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asked Jul 03 '12 at 14:50

KentZhou

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`Encoding.UTF8` *is* available in Silverlight, although it's not clear how you'd use it... – Jon Skeet Jul 03 '12 at 14:52
A couple dupes can be found [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/249087/how-do-i-remove-diacritics-accents-from-a-string-in-net) and [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3769457/how-can-i-remove-accents-on-a-string) – NominSim Jul 03 '12 at 14:54
those "dupes" aren't for silverlight – Robert Levy Jul 03 '12 at 14:55
thanks. Normalize is not available to SL too. – KentZhou Jul 03 '12 at 14:58
@RobertLevy they seem to be quite standard .NET stuff, I don't know why they wouldn't work on Silverlight. – Kiril Jul 03 '12 at 14:58
@KentZhou [here is a basic implementation of Normalize](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4046937/removing-diacritics-in-silverlight-string-normalize-issue) – Kiril Jul 03 '12 at 15:00
@Lirik - ahh now there's a real dupe – Robert Levy Jul 03 '12 at 15:31
@RobertLevy Silverlight is a .NET language... – NominSim Jul 04 '12 at 03:14
@nominsim umm yeah but it doesn't have all the same APIs available. Compare the answers in your links to the ones in Normalize's link. – Robert Levy Jul 04 '12 at 11:08

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