how to remove diatrics / accent marks in Windows Phone 7.x

The usual way of removing diatrics doesn’t work in windows phone. So what you need to do is manually replace what you need to replace.

Here’s what i tend to do.

Note: It only replaces lowercase replacement (as that was what i needed )so keep that in mind… however nothing is stopping you from extending it.

public class StringUtil
{
   static char[] englishReplace = { 'e' };
   static char[] englishAccents = { 'é' };

   static char[] frenchReplace = { 'a', 'a', 'a', 'a', 'c', 'e', 'e', 'e', 'e', 'i', 'i', 'o', 'o', 'u', 'u', 'u' };
   static char[] frenchAccents = { 'à', 'â', 'ä', 'æ', 'ç', 'é', 'è', 'ê', 'ë', 'î', 'ï', 'ô', 'œ', 'ù', 'û', 'ü' };

   static char[] germanReplace = { 'a', 'o', 'u', 's' };
   static char[] germanAccents = { 'ä', 'ö', 'ü', 'ß' };

   static char[] spanishReplace = { 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u' };
   static char[] spanishAccents = { 'á', 'é', 'í', 'ó', 'ú' };

   static char[] catalanReplace = { 'a', 'e', 'e', 'i', 'i', 'o', 'o', 'u', 'u' };
   static char[] catalanAccents = { 'à', 'è', 'é', 'í', 'ï', 'ò', 'ó', 'ú', 'ü' };

   static char[] italianReplace = { 'a', 'e', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'o', 'u' };
   static char[] italianAccents = { 'à', 'è', 'é', 'ì', 'ò', 'ó', 'ù' };

   static char[] polishReplace = { 'a', 'c', 'e', 'l', 'n', 'o', 's', 'z', 'z' };
   static char[] polishAccents = { 'ą', 'ć', 'ę', 'ł', 'ń', 'ó', 'ś', 'ż', 'ź' };

   static char[] hungarianReplace = { 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'o', 'o', 'u', 'u', 'u' };
   static char[] hungarianAccents = { 'á', 'é', 'í', 'ö', 'ó', 'ő', 'ü', 'ú', 'ű' };

   static char[] portugueseReplace = { 'a', 'a', 'a', 'a', 'e', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'o', 'o', 'u', 'u' };
   static char[] portugueseAccents = { 'ã', 'á', 'â', 'à', 'é', 'ê', 'í', 'õ', 'ó', 'ô', 'ú', 'ü' };

   static char[] czechReplace = { 'a', 'a', 'a', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'e', 'i', 'n', 'o', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'u', 'y', 'z' };
   static char[] czechAccents = { 'ã', 'á', 'á', 'č', 'ď', 'é', 'ě', 'í', 'ň', 'ó', 'ř', 'š', 'ť', 'ú', 'ů', 'ý', 'ž' };

   static char[] dutchReplace = { 'e', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'o', 'u' };
   static char[] dutchAccents = { 'é', 'ë', 'ï', 'ó', 'ö', 'ü' };

   static char[] turkishReplace = { 'c', 'e', 'e', 'g', 'i', 'i', 'o', 'o', 'u' };
   static char[] turkishAccents = { 'ç', 'é', 'ë', 'ğ', 'İ', 'ï', 'ó', 'ö', 'ü' };

   static char[] romanianReplace = { 'a', 'a', 'i', 's', 's', 't', 't' };
   static char[] romanianAccents = { 'ă', 'â', 'î', 'ş', 'ș', 'ţ', 'ț' };

   static char[] filipinoReplace = { 'a', 'a', 'a', 'e', 'e', 'e', 'i', 'i', 'i', 'o', 'o', 'o', 'u', 'u', 'u' };
   static char[] filipinoAccents = { 'á', 'à', 'â', 'é', 'è', 'ê', 'í', 'ì', 'î', 'ó', 'ò', 'ô', 'ú', 'ù', 'û' };

   static char[] ukarainianReplace = { 'i', 'r' };
   static char[] ukarainianAccents = { 'ї', 'ґ' };

   static char[] russianReplace = { 'b' };
   static char[] russianAccents = { 'ъ' };

   static char[] greekReplace = { 'α', 'ε', 'η', 'ι', 'ι', 'ι', 'ο', 'υ', 'υ', 'υ', 'ω' };
   static char[] greekAccents = { 'ά', 'έ', 'ή', 'ί', 'ϊ', 'ΐ', 'ό', 'ύ', 'ϋ', 'ΰ', 'ώ' };

   static char[] arabicAccents = { 'أ', 'إ', 'آ', 'ء', 'پ', 'ض', 'ذ', 'ـ', 'خ', 'خ', 'غ', 'ش', 'ة', 'ث', 'ً', 'ٰ', 'ؤ', 'ظ', 'ى', 'ئ' };
   static char[] arabicReplace = { 'ا', 'ا', 'ا', 'ا', 'ب', 'ص', 'د', 'ّ', 'ح', 'ك', 'ع', 'س', 'ت', 'ت', 'َ', 'َ', 'و', 'ط', 'ي', 'ي' };

   static char[] bulgarianReplace = { 'ь', 'и' };
   static char[] bulgarianAccents = { 'ъ', 'ѝ' };

   static char[] croatianReplace = { 'c','c','d','s','z' };
   static char[] croatianAccents = { 'č','ć','đ','š','ž' };

   static char[] estonianReplace = { 'a', 'o', 'o', 'u' };
   static char[] estonianAccents = { 'ä', 'ö', 'õ', 'ü' };

   static char[] icelandicReplace = { 'o' };
   static char[] icelandicAccents = { 'ö' };

   static char[] latvianReplace = { 'e' };
   static char[] latvianAccents = { 'ē' };

   static char[] slovakianReplace = { 'a', 'a', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'i', 'l', 'l', 'n', 'o', 'o', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'y', 'z' };
   static char[] slovakianAccents = { 'á', 'ä', 'č', 'ď', 'é', 'í', 'ĺ', 'ľ', 'ň', 'ó', 'ô', 'ŕ', 'š', 'ť', 'ú', 'ý', 'ž' };

 public enum DictionaryDef
 {
   NotSet,
   Arabic,
   Bulgarian,
   Catalan,
   ChineseSimplified,
   ChineseTraditional,
   Croatian,
   Czech,
   CzechAlt,
   Danish,
   Dutch,
   DutchBelgium,
   English,
   Estonian,
   Finnish,
   French,
   CanadianFrench,
   SwissFrench,
   German,
   Greek,
   Hebrew,
   Hungarian,
   Icelandic,
   Italian,
   Latvian,
   //Macedonian,
   Norwegian,
   Polish,
   Portuguese,
   BrazilianPortuguese,
   Romanian,
   Russian,
   Spanish,
   Slovak,
   SlovakAlt,
   Slovenian,
   Swedish,
   Turkish,
   Ukrainian
 }

 static StringBuilder sbStripAccents = new StringBuilder();
        
 public static string RemoveDiacritics(string accentedStr, Config.DictionaryDef eDictionary)
 {
   char[] replacement = null;
   char[] accents = null;
   switch (eDictionary)
   {
      case DictionaryDef.Arabic:
         replacement = arabicReplace;
         accents = arabicAccents;
         break;

      case DictionaryDef.Slovak:
      case Config.DictionaryDef.SlovakAlt:
         replacement = slovakianReplace;
         accents = slovakianAccents;
         break;

      case DictionaryDef.Latvian:
         replacement = latvianReplace;
         accents = latvianAccents;
         break;

      case DictionaryDef.Icelandic:
         replacement = icelandicReplace;
         accents = icelandicAccents;
         break;

      case DictionaryDef.Estonian:
         replacement = estonianReplace;
         accents = estonianAccents;
         break;

      case DictionaryDef.Bulgarian:
         replacement = bulgarianReplace;
         accents = bulgarianAccents;
         break;

      case DictionaryDef.Romanian:
         replacement = romanianReplace;
         accents = romanianAccents;
         break;

      case DictionaryDef.Croatian:
      case DictionaryDef.Slovenian:
         replacement = croatianReplace;
         accents = croatianAccents;
         break;

      case DictionaryDef.English:
         replacement = englishReplace;
         accents = englishAccents;
         break;

      case DictionaryDef.French:
      case DictionaryDef.CanadianFrench:
      case DictionaryDef.SwissFrench:
         replacement = frenchReplace;
         accents = frenchAccents;
         break;

      case DictionaryDef.German:
         replacement = germanReplace;
         accents = germanAccents;
         break;

      case DictionaryDef.Spanish:
         replacement = spanishReplace;
         accents = spanishAccents;
         break;

      case DictionaryDef.Catalan:
         replacement = catalanReplace;
         accents = catalanAccents;
         break;

      case DictionaryDef.Italian:
         replacement = italianReplace;
         accents = italianAccents;
         break;

      case DictionaryDef.Polish:
         replacement = polishReplace;
         accents = polishAccents;
         break;

      case DictionaryDef.Hungarian:
         replacement = hungarianReplace;
         accents = hungarianAccents;
         break;

      case DictionaryDef.Portuguese:
      case DictionaryDef.BrazilianPortuguese:
         replacement = portugueseReplace;
         accents = portugueseAccents;
         break;

      case DictionaryDef.Czech:
      case DictionaryDef.CzechAlt:
         replacement = czechReplace;
         accents = czechAccents;
         break;

      case DictionaryDef.Dutch:
         replacement = dutchReplace;
         accents = dutchAccents;
         break;

      case DictionaryDef.Turkish:
         replacement = turkishReplace;
         accents = turkishAccents;
         break;

      case DictionaryDef.Russian:
         replacement = russianReplace;
         accents = russianAccents;
         break;

      case DictionaryDef.Ukrainian:
         replacement = ukarainianReplace;
         accents = ukarainianAccents;
         break;

      case DictionaryDef.Greek:
         replacement = greekReplace;
         accents = greekAccents;
         break;

      default:
         return accentedStr;

   } 
            
   if (accents != null && replacement != null && accentedStr.IndexOfAny(accents) > -1)
   {
      sbStripAccents.Length = 0;
      sbStripAccents.Append(accentedStr);
      for (int i = 0; i < accents.Length; i++)
      {
         sbStripAccents.Replace(accents[i], replacement[i]);
      }

      return sbStripAccents.ToString();
   }
   else
      return accentedStr;
 }
}

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