How to remove accent from string in WP7

Question

I want to remove accent (diacritic) from string in Windows Phone 7. The solution here works for .NET (desktop version). However, WP7 string has no Normalize method.

Someone suggest change from string to byte, but I dont know what he means. How to remove accent ?

Answer 1

I use this:

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

Edit: this solution works in Windows 8 apps, but not in Windows Phone. The best solution I have found so far is this manual one:
http://invokeit.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/how-to-remove-diatrics-accent-marks-in-windows-phone-7-x/