Question

Is there any alternative to string.Normalize() in WinRT? I want to simply remove accents from input strings using this approach, but I cannot find anywhere this method in WinRT.

Answer 1

I’ve discovered here quick and short solution, that works just fine in WinRT:

public static string RemoveAccents(this string accentedStr)
{
    byte[] tempBytes = Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-8").GetBytes(accentedStr);
    return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(tempBytes, 0, tempBytes.Length);
}