Is there String.Normalize() alternative in WinRT?

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Is there any alternative to string.Normalize() in WinRT? I want to simply remove accents from input strings using this approach, but I cannot find anywhere this method in WinRT.

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:16

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I've discovered here quick and short solution, that works just fine in WinRT:

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

edited May 23 '17 at 12:16

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answered Sep 11 '12 at 11:05

Martin Suchan

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It seems, this function turns Cyrillic symbols to question marks. – Yaroslav Mar 12 '15 at 22:17
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This is not a correct or wise solution. Converting to ISO-8859-8 and then to UTF-8 is not Unicode normalization. – nexus Aug 05 '15 at 18:52

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:33

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You will not find any alternative to String.Normalize in WinRT because it is available as part of the .NET Core Profile that is available to Metro style apps. Docs. If you are using C++, see this question.

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answered Sep 09 '12 at 01:13

JP Alioto

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I use C#, so this won't help much. – Martin Suchan Sep 11 '12 at 11:06

Is there String.Normalize() alternative in WinRT?

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