Compare strings with non-English characters?

Question

I need to compare strings for a search mechanism on a web site. I use C#. I tried two ways:

consultants.Where(x => 
    x.Description.ToLower().Contains(v         


        

Answer 1

Here is an introduction to the character set problem by Joel Spolsky. A very interesting read.

In short, the web page needs to tell you what character set it is using at the very beginning of the page. C# is using unicode (In UTF-16 encoding as standard) for strings, a explanation what that means can you find here in csharp in depth

Hope this will help you.