Re: [HACKERS] UTF-8 safe ascii() function

From: Jean-Michel POURE <jm(dot)poure(at)freesurf(dot)fr>
To: Patrice Hédé <phede-ml(at)islande(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] UTF-8 safe ascii() function
Date: 2002-05-19 18:08:18
Message-ID: 200205192008.18893.jm.poure@freesurf.fr
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Le Dimanche 19 Mai 2002 11:44, Patrice Hédé a écrit :
> The function is taking the first character of a TEXT element, and
> returns its UCS2 value. I just did some basic test (i.e. I have not
> tried with 3 or 4 bytes UTF-8 chars). The function is following the
> Unicode 3.2 spec.

Hi Patrice,

I tried a Japanese character :
SELECT utf8toucs2 ('支'::text) which returns -1

Do you know why it does not return the UCS-2 value?

Cheers,
Jean-Michel POURE

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