| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Diego Manilla Suárez <diego(dot)manilla(at)xeridia(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Accent insensitive search |
| Date: | 2007-06-22 16:09:35 |
| Message-ID: | 20070622160935.GN8949@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Diego Manilla Suárez wrote:
> Hi. I have a few databases created with UNICODE encoding, and I would
> like to be able to search with accent insensitivity. There's something
> in Oracle (NLS_COMP, NLS_SORT) and SQL Server (don't remember) to do
> this, but I found nothing in PostgreSQL, just the 'to_ascii' function,
> which AFAIK, doesn't work with UNICODE.
to_ascii() doesn't work with UTF-8, but you can use convert() to turn
the UTF8 text into Latin-1 and then use to_ascii() to remove the funny
bits.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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