How to capitalize a French word with characters that are HTML-encoded?

Question

I have strings in my database that are in all-caps and I need these strings to be in title case on the client side.

I am using

System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.TextInfo.ToTitleCase(string);

to do this but it doesn't work for French characters such as

ê

which is being capitalized even though it is in the middle of the word.

The result of

System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.TextInfo.ToTitleCase(l'hêtrière);

is: L'hÊTriÈRe and this is not what I want.

I was using regular expressions before but it did not solve this issue either. Any ideas or a general direction would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

You have to decode the html string before using ToTitleCase.

CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.TextInfo.ToTitleCase(HttpUtility.HtmlDecode("l'hêtrière").ToLower());