Replace special characters in string array

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Hallo, i have string array "words" with special characters and i want to replace it with normal characters. I compare text in label (words with special characters) with text in textbox, wich user will write (words WITHOUT special characters).Example:

string[] words = { "čau", "tschüs" };
string blahblah = words[random.Next(words.Length)];
            label.Text = blahblah;
if (label.Text == textbox.Text)
            {
                do something...
            }

And i need output to be: "cau" and "tschus"... If in label will be "čau" and user write to textbox "cau" it will compare it as a same word.
Can anybody help me?
Thank you for answer.

Posted 18-Feb-15 6:25am

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Tomas Takac 18-Feb-15 12:37pm

Try this: Removing Diacritics from Strings[^]

Richard Deeming 18-Feb-15 13:00pm

You should post that as a solution. :)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-Feb-15 12:48pm

Why? Want to give up on correct spelling of Unicode text? :-)
—SA

Richard MacCutchan 18-Feb-15 13:32pm

You should just set a translation table for the special characters that you are interested in and use that to do that changes. Creating a list of all possible words would take forever.

Member 10808387 18-Feb-15 13:41pm

And how do I do that? What translation table? I will not write all possible words, I have only few, that i choose. :)

Richard MacCutchan 18-Feb-15 13:47pm

A translation table in this case would only require two sets of characters. Look up the special character in table 1 and use the find index to locate the corresponding non-special character. Pretty simple piece of code.

OriginalGriff 18-Feb-15 14:05pm

No need for a translation table:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.string.normalize(v=vs.110).aspx

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-18T08:03:00

Solution 1

See here: Removing Diacritics from Strings[^]

Posted 18-Feb-15 8:03am

OriginalGriff