Remove Diacritics

WebPublisher sometimes has problems with diacritic characters, and XML input actually requires that you do not include diacritics in field names AT ALL, so here is a *very* useful C# method that will strip diacritics from any string, replacing them with their non-diacritic equivalents.

[Found at Sorting It All Out. Written in C# .NET 2.0.]

using System.Globalization;

using System.Text;

public static string RemoveDiacritics(string input)

{

    string stFormD = input.Normalize(NormalizationForm.FormD);

    int len = stFormD.Length;

    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

    for (int i = 0; i < len; i++)

    {

        UnicodeCategory uc = CharUnicodeInfo.GetUnicodeCategory(stFormD[i]);

        if (uc != UnicodeCategory.NonSpacingMark)

        {

            sb.Append(stFormD[i]);

        }

    }

    return (sb.ToString().Normalize(NormalizationForm.FormC));

}