How do I translate 8bit characters into 7bit characters? (i.e. Ü to U)

Question

I\'m looking for pseudocode, or sample code, to convert higher bit ascii characters (like, Ü which is extended ascii 154) into U (which is ascii 85).

My initial gues

Answer 1

In code page 1251, chars are coded with 2 bytes : one for the basic char and one for the variation. Then, when you encode back in ASCII, only basic chars are kept.

public string RemoveDiacritics(string text)
{

  return System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString(System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(1251).GetBytes(text));

}

From : http://www.clt-services.com/blog/post/Enlever-les-accents-dans-une-chaine-(proprement).aspx