Remove diacritical marks (ń ǹ ň ñ ṅ ņ ṇ ṋ ṉ ̈ ɲ ƞ ᶇ ɳ ȵ) from Unicode chars

Question

I am looking at an algorithm that can map between characters with diacritics (tilde, circumflex, caret, umlaut, caron) and their \"simple\" character.

For example:

Answer 1

For future reference, here is a C# extension method that removes accents.

public static class StringExtensions
{
    public static string RemoveDiacritics(this string str)
    {
        return new string(
            str.Normalize(NormalizationForm.FormD)
                .Where(c => CharUnicodeInfo.GetUnicodeCategory(c) != 
                            UnicodeCategory.NonSpacingMark)
                .ToArray());
    }
}
static void Main()
{
    var input = "ŃŅŇ ÀÁÂÃÄÅ ŢŤţť Ĥĥ àáâãäå ńņň";
    var output = input.RemoveDiacritics();
    Debug.Assert(output == "NNN AAAAAA TTtt Hh aaaaaa nnn");
}