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I need to compare 2 strings, looking at the first letter only.

Is there a method to compare A to Á, and recognize it as A, without the ´?

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Rui Lopes
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    Check out this answer, which has what you need: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1231764/nsstring-convert-to-pure-alphabet-only-i-e-remove-accentspunctuation/1233399#1233399 – martineno Dec 11 '10 at 21:19

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NSString has a diacritic-insensitive comparison mode which will do what you're after.

// should return NSOrderedSame, i.e. identical
[@"Apple" compare:@"Ápple" 
          options:NSDiacriticInsensitiveSearch]

If you want it to be case-insensitive as well:

// ditto
[@"APPLE" compare:@"Ápple" 
          options:NSDiacriticInsensitiveSearch | NSCaseInsensitiveSearch]
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