Removing diacritics in Silverlight (String.Normalize issue)

Question

I did create a function that transforms diacritic characters into non-diacritic characters (based on this post)

Here’s the code:

Public Function Remo         


        

Answer 1

Thanks for your answer Jim but I tried to implement the normalization class like the Mono Project did and at one point, I realized it was an overkill because there's way too many dependencies involved for something that should be simple.

I came up with this simple implementation... it's not perfect, I know (This won't work for every language) but it will do the job for me until MS release a version of Silverlight with string normalization support.

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Public Function RemoveDiacritics(ByVal searchInString As String) As String
    Dim returnValue As String = ""

    returnValue = searchInString

    returnValue = returnValue.ReplaceLowerAndUpperCase("À", "A")
    returnValue = returnValue.ReplaceLowerAndUpperCase("Á", "A")
    returnValue = returnValue.ReplaceLowerAndUpperCase("Â", "A")
    returnValue = returnValue.ReplaceLowerAndUpperCase("Ã", "A")
    returnValue = returnValue.ReplaceLowerAndUpperCase("Ä", "A")
    returnValue = returnValue.ReplaceLowerAndUpperCase("Å", "A")
    returnValue = returnValue.ReplaceLowerAndUpperCase("Æ", "A")

    returnValue = returnValue.ReplaceLowerAndUpperCase("Ç", "C")

    returnValue = returnValue.ReplaceLowerAndUpperCase("È", "E")
    returnValue = returnValue.ReplaceLowerAndUpperCase("É", "E")
    returnValue = returnValue.ReplaceLowerAndUpperCase("Ê", "E")
    returnValue = returnValue.ReplaceLowerAndUpperCase("Ë", "E")

    returnValue = returnValue.ReplaceLowerAndUpperCase("Ì", "I")
    returnValue = returnValue.ReplaceLowerAndUpperCase("Í", "I")
    returnValue = returnValue.ReplaceLowerAndUpperCase("Î", "I")
    returnValue = returnValue.ReplaceLowerAndUpperCase("Ï", "I")

    returnValue = returnValue.ReplaceLowerAndUpperCase("Ñ", "N")

    returnValue = returnValue.ReplaceLowerAndUpperCase("Ò", "O")
    returnValue = returnValue.ReplaceLowerAndUpperCase("Ó", "O")
    returnValue = returnValue.ReplaceLowerAndUpperCase("Ô", "O")
    returnValue = returnValue.ReplaceLowerAndUpperCase("Õ", "O")
    returnValue = returnValue.ReplaceLowerAndUpperCase("Ö", "O")

    returnValue = returnValue.ReplaceLowerAndUpperCase("Ù", "U")
    returnValue = returnValue.ReplaceLowerAndUpperCase("Ú", "U")
    returnValue = returnValue.ReplaceLowerAndUpperCase("Û", "U")
    returnValue = returnValue.ReplaceLowerAndUpperCase("Ü", "U")

    returnValue = returnValue.ReplaceLowerAndUpperCase("Ý", "Y")

    returnValue = returnValue.ReplaceLowerAndUpperCase("Æ", "AE")
    returnValue = returnValue.ReplaceLowerAndUpperCase("Œ", "OE")

    Return returnValue

End Function

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Public Function ReplaceLowerAndUpperCase(ByVal searchInString As String, ByVal oldString As String, ByVal newString As String) As String
    Dim returnValue As String = ""

    returnValue = searchInString.Replace(oldString.ToLower, newString.ToLower)
    returnValue = returnValue.Replace(oldString.ToUpper, newString.ToUpper)

    Return returnValue
End Function