Umlauts as Char

[Prescott Nasser]

Hey all, 
 
So while digging into the code a bit (and pushed by digy's Arabic conversion 
yesterday). I started looking at the various other languages we were missing 
from java.
 
I started porting the GermanAnalyzer, but ran into an issue of the Umlauts...
 
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/lucene/java/tags/lucene_2_9_4/contrib/analyzers/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/de/GermanStemmer.java?revision=1040993&view=co
 
in the void subsitute function you'll see them:
 
        else if ( buffer.charAt( c ) == 'ü' ) {
          buffer.setCharAt( c, 'u' );
        }

This does not constitue a character in .net (that I can figure out) and thus it 
doesn't compile. The .java file says encoded in UTF-8. I was thinking maybe I 
could do the same thing in VS2010, but I'm not finding a way, and searching on 
this has been difficult.
 
Any ideas?
 
~Prescott