Veggerby : IBlog

I can’t (and won’t) take full credit for this extension method. The hardcore Unicode stuff is from Michael Kaplan’s blog (jeez, he is hardcore). There is a little danish “stuff” included, for special characters æ, ø and å, which can also be written “ae”, “oe” an “aa”.

public static string ToSlug(this string message)

{

    // replace space with -

    message = Regex.Replace(message, @"[\s/\\\.,+|_]+", "-");

    // normalize the message 

    message = message.Normalize(NormalizationForm.FormD);

    message = message.Replace("ø", "oe").Replace("Ø", "Oe").Replace("æ", "ae").Replace("Æ", "Ae").Replace("å", "aa").Replace("Å", "Aa");

    StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();

    for (int i = 0; i < message.Length; i++)

    {

        UnicodeCategory uc = CharUnicodeInfo.GetUnicodeCategory(message[i]);

        if (uc != UnicodeCategory.NonSpacingMark)

        {

            result.Append(message[i]);

        }

    }

    return Regex.Replace(result.ToString().Normalize(NormalizationForm.FormC), @"[^a-zA-Z0-9\-]", "").ToLower();

}