Conversion of character set in C# [duplicate]

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How do I remove diacritics (accents) from a string in .NET?

开发者_如何学GoOur project generates an string(Mērā nāma nitina hai) in web page and when we read it using Regex.match function then we get a string in which these special character are converted into some browser code like \&#\257(without backslash) in place of ā . So we want to convert it into 'a' or 'ā'. So that we can use it in further program. Thanks

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Im not sure that my method is absolutely right but it works for me:

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string first = @"Mērā nāma nitina hai";
first = System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(first);

byte[] ansi = System.Text.Encoding.Convert(Encoding.Unicode, Encoding.GetEncoding(1252), Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(first));
string output = Encoding.Unicode.GetString(System.Text.Encoding.Convert(Encoding.GetEncoding(1252), Encoding.Unicode, ansi));
MessageBox.Show(output);

The main idea of this code - you are converting your string to ANSI and back to UNICODE. After this action all diacritics is gone away.

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How about this:

var correctStr = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(@"Mērā nāma nitina hai");

Explanation: ā is an html entity character representing the special accented char with unicode code 257.

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You need to use the String.Normalize method.