Question

I have a script which creates users in Microsoft Exchange Server and Active Directory. So, though it’s commmon that user’s names have accents or ñ in Spain, I want to avoid them for the username to not to cause any incompatibilities in old systems.

So, how could I clean a string like this?

$name = "Ramón"

To be like that? :

$name = "Ramon"

Answer 1

Well I can help you with some of the code…..

I used this recently in a c# project to strip from email addresses:

    static string RemoveDiacritics(string input)
    {
        string inputFormD = (input ?? string.Empty).Normalize(NormalizationForm.FormD);
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

        for (var i = 0; i < inputFormD.Length; i++)
        {
            UnicodeCategory uc = CharUnicodeInfo.GetUnicodeCategory(inputFormD[i]);
            if (uc != UnicodeCategory.NonSpacingMark)
            {
                sb.Append(inputFormD[i]);
            }
        }

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

I guess I can now say ‘extending into a PowerShell script/form is left to the reader’…. hope it helps….