So, my question is fairly simple. I have a string and I want to

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So, my question is fairly simple. I have a string and I want to

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So, my question is fairly simple. I have a string and I want to be able to use it in urls. Simple, right? The tricky part is, however, I want a custom way of encoding it. You see, my language is full of é, í, ô, ä, ľ,š,č,ť…, you get the idea.

So, let’s say I have a string like this:

Čečenský bojovník sa pobil v košickej väzbe

If I use HttpUtility.EncodeUrl, I get this string:

%c4%8ce%c4%8densk%c3%bd+bojovn%c3%adk+sa+pobil+v+ko%c5%a1ickej+v%c3%a4zbe

However, my desired string would look like this (trying to have as user-friendly urls as possible):

cecensky-bojovnik-sa-pobil-v-kosickej-vazbe

Using the function EncodeUrl isn’t an option then. So, I wrote myself a function to do multiple manipulations to the string, doing exactly what I need.

public static string EncodeForUrl(this string s)
{
    string temp = s.StripDiacritics();  // one custom function
    temp = temp.ToLower();
    temp = temp.Trim();
    temp = temp.Replace(" ", "-");
    return temp;
}

I think it’s obvious what’s going on and it works perfectly fine. Well, except the fact a string is immutable, so there’s quite a lot of unnecessary memory allocations going on.

So finally I got to my question – is there some recommended, more efficient way, of doing this?