Ignoring diacritic characters when comparing words with special characters (é, è, …)

Question

I have a list with some Belgian cities with diacritic characters: (Liège, Quiévrain, Franière, etc.) and I would like to transform these special characters to compare with a lis

Answer 1

This is the simplest solution I've found so far and it works perfectly in our applications.

Normalizer.normalize(string, Normalizer.Form.NFD).replaceAll("\\p{InCombiningDiacriticalMarks}+", ""); 

But I don't know if the Normalizer is available on the Android platform.