Replacing characters in C# (ascii)

Question

I got a file with characters like these: à, è, ì, ò, ù - À. What i need to do is replace those characters with normal characters eg: à = a, è = e and so on..... This is my c

Answer 1

Others have commented on using a Unicode lookup table to remove Diacritics. I did a quick Google search and found this example. Code shamelessly copied, (re-formatted), and posted below:

using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Globalization;

public static class Remove
{
    public static string RemoveDiacritics(string stIn)
    {
        string stFormD = stIn.Normalize(NormalizationForm.FormD);
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

        for(int ich = 0; ich < stFormD.Length; ich++) {
            UnicodeCategory uc = CharUnicodeInfo.GetUnicodeCategory(stFormD[ich]);
            if(uc != UnicodeCategory.NonSpacingMark) {
                sb.Append(stFormD[ich]);
            }
        }

        return(sb.ToString().Normalize(NormalizationForm.FormC));
    }
}

So, your code could clean the input by calling:

line = Remove.RemoveDiacritics(line);