From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us |
Cc: | Karel Zak <zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz>, pgsql-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: to_ascii() |
Date: | 2000-08-04 20:49:40 |
Message-ID: | 200008042049.QAA28463@candle.pha.pa.us |
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I had to back out the patch. It only compiles with multi-byte enabled.
Please submit a new patch.
> Applied.
>
> >
> > to_ascii( text )
> >
> > - encode 'text' from database encoding to ASCII
> >
> > to_ascii('\256\341k')
> >
> >
> > to_ascii( text, int4 )
> >
> > - encode 'text' from 'int4' encoding to ASCII
> >
> > to_ascii('\256\341k', 8)
> >
> >
> > to_ascii( text, name )
> >
> > - encode 'text' from 'name' encoding to ASCII
> >
> > to_ascii('\256\341k', 'LATIN2')
> >
> >
> > Now is supported LATIN1, LATIN2, WIN1250. For other character sets I
> > haven't good resources. Add new encoding is easy...
> >
> > If encoding is not supported returns ERROR.
> >
> > Note --- not exists total corect conversion to ASCII, this function try
> > convert chars those is _probably_ interpret-able in ASCII for
> > others use ' '. But for example for all Czech characters it is
> > sufficient ... hmm Chinese / JAP and other complicated langs have
> > bad luck here :-(
> >
> > Karel
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