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Replacing invalid url chars

Peter Leleulya

Posted on 24/09/2015 16:14:22

Hi guys,

Of course I know of UrlEncode, but I noticed the Dynamicweb Url handler interprets ë, ö, etc and converts them in readable variations of that character in stead of %3cwhatever encoding.
I need to auto generate sub domain bindings based on strings and was wondering if whatever functionality is handling the interpretation of these characters is accessable through the dynamicweb dlls ...
I already filtered all common keybord chars by regex and do an urlencode at the end to be sure i have a valid subdomain.
But I'm stuck with these characters which must be so common for you guys up north ... They get terriblyuglified by the encoding ...
Any tips?

Greetings, Peter.

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Peter Leleulya

Posted on 25/09/2015 10:23:35

Never mind, as soon as I discovered the correct word for these accents is "diacritics", a simple solution was quickly found:

public static string RemoveDiacritics(string text)
        {
            var normalizedString = text.Normalize(NormalizationForm.FormD);
            var stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
            foreach (var c in from c in normalizedString let unicodeCategory = CharUnicodeInfo.GetUnicodeCategory(c) where unicodeCategory != UnicodeCategory.NonSpacingMark select c)
            {
                stringBuilder.Append(c);
            }
            return stringBuilder.ToString().Normalize(NormalizationForm.FormC);
        }

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