Question

Is there an easy way to replace special characters, like æøåéü etc., from a string in a Powershell script?

Making the string web-safe.

Answer 1

Ok, with additional explanation, I guess solution would depend on a scale. If that’s user input and in “normal” use it would be short, that maybe something like that:

$Replacer = @{
    Å = 'aa'
    é = 'e'
}

$string_to_fix = 'æøåéüÅ'

$pattern = "[$(-join $Replacer.Keys)]"

[regex]::Replace($string_to_fix, $pattern, { $Replacer[$args[0].value] })

Obviously, you would have to fill in the blanks for $Replacer 😉
HTH
Bartek