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This component contains two activities:<ol><li>Normalize Selector - removes any characters that are not numbers or letters with * for a much more dynamic selector.</li><li>Replace Diacritics - normalizes a string by replacing diacritics with their equivalent without a glyph.</li></ol>Possible use cases:<ul><li>Comparing texts from 2 sources where texts can appear with or without glyphs.</li><li>Using a dynamic selector that contains special characters that might differ.</li></ul>

Normalize strings for better matching of texts

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- These activities are useful when doing automations in multicultural environments or that target applications that are localized.
The Remove Diactrics works fine, but it seems that the Normalize Selector activity replaces each character by an asterisk, which creates problems if you copy and paste the selector string from an activity's Selector property, because it has characters like <, > and quotation marks.
 For example: 
"<html title='MSN | Hotmail, Notícias, Horóscopo, Famosos, Clima, Outlook' /><webctrl id='q' tag='INPUT' />" 
becomes "*html*title**MSN***Hotmail**Not*cias**Hor*scopo**Famosos**Clima**Outlook*****webctrl*id**q**tag**INPUT****".
So I'd like to suggest for the Normalize Selector activity to be fine tuned a bit more, to ignore characters that can happen in the selector structure (<, >, =, quotes, etc) and also to combine multiple asterisks that are together (*** is the same as * in selectors).

FutureWorkForce - Remove Special Characters

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