How do I remove diacritics (accents) from a string in .NET?

Question

I\'m trying to convert some strings that are in French Canadian and basically, I\'d like to be able to take out the French accent marks in the letters while keeping the lett

Answer 1

In case someone is interested, I was looking for something similar and ended writing the following:

public static string NormalizeStringForUrl(string name)
{
    String normalizedString = name.Normalize(NormalizationForm.FormD);
    StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();

    foreach (char c in normalizedString)
    {
        switch (CharUnicodeInfo.GetUnicodeCategory(c))
        {
            case UnicodeCategory.LowercaseLetter:
            case UnicodeCategory.UppercaseLetter:
            case UnicodeCategory.DecimalDigitNumber:
                stringBuilder.Append(c);
                break;
            case UnicodeCategory.SpaceSeparator:
            case UnicodeCategory.ConnectorPunctuation:
            case UnicodeCategory.DashPunctuation:
                stringBuilder.Append('_');
                break;
        }
    }
    string result = stringBuilder.ToString();
    return String.Join("_", result.Split(new char[] { '_' }
        , StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)); // remove duplicate underscores
}