title: How to replace special characters with their equivalent (such as " á " for " a") in C#?
body: <p>I need to get the Portuguese text content out of an Excel file and create an xml which is going to be used by an application that doesn't support characters such as "ç", "á", "é", and others. And I can't just remove the characters, but replace them with their equivalent ("c", "a", "e", for example). </p>
  
  <p>I assume there's a better way to do it than check each character individually and replace it with their counterparts. Any suggestions on how to do it?</p>