Removing/replacing international characters

Question

I am creating a small app in C# to search for filenames based on information passed from a SQL query. Within the data passed from the SQL query there will be on occasion (po

Answer 1

var s1 = ToASCII("Hervé");
var s2 = ToASCII("Mañana"); 

string ToASCII(string s)
{
    return String.Join("",
         s.Normalize(NormalizationForm.FormD)
        .Where(c => char.GetUnicodeCategory(c) != UnicodeCategory.NonSpacingMark));
}

Answer 2

If you're running against MS-SQL server, see COLLATE in the online help. You can functionally change the encoding on the fly.