StripDiacritics Method

Strips diacritics from a string.

Syntax

Visual Basic

'Declaration
 
Public Shared Function StripDiacritics( _
   ByVal text As String _
) As String

C#

public static string StripDiacritics( 
   string text
)

Parameters

text

A string that may contain one or more character with a diacritic.

Return Value

A new string with those diacritics stripped out or the passed in string if it didn't contain any diacritics.

Remarks

A diacritic, or sometimes just called an accent, is defined as a non spacing mark applied to a letter in an alphabet to change the sound-value of the letter to which they are applied. Examples include acute, grave, circumflex, caron, double acute, double grave, ring, umlaut, breve, tilde, cedilla, and so on.

Requirements

Target Platforms: Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2