compare special characters like À with regular A

Question

In some languages there are letters like À, I saw that for table view sections the native iOS put À under the same section as A.
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Answer 1

You can convert it first into regular alphabets and then compare.

NSString *originalStr = @"À béautiful day";
NSData *d = [originalStr dataUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding allowLossyConversion:YES];
NSString *converted = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:d encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];

Answer 2

Don't convert or transform as per the other answers. First, try -[NSString localizedStandardCompare:]. If that doesn't do what you want, pass NSDiacriticInsensitiveSearch among the options to one of the NSString comparison methods (such as -compare:options:range:locale:). You may want to use additional options, too, such as NSCaseInsensitiveSearch.

Answer 3

Here's a great article about CFStringTransform on NSHipser http://nshipster.com/cfstringtransform/

Next, apply the kCFStringTransformStripCombiningMarks transform to remove any diacritics or accents.