Ignoring accented letters in string comparison

Question

I need to compare 2 strings in C# and treat accented letters the same as non-accented letters. For example:

string s1 = \"hello\";
string s2 = \"héllo\";

s1         


        

Answer 1

A more simple way to remove accents:

    Dim source As String = "áéíóúç"
    Dim result As String

    Dim bytes As Byte() = Encoding.GetEncoding("Cyrillic").GetBytes(source)
    result = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(bytes)