Re: Accent-insensitive search

On Monday 09 July 2007 18:33:49 turbovince wrote:
> Hello, I would like to perform some accent-insensitive searches on my
> database, which means that a select query with condition, say, WHERE
> NAME = 'HELLÔ' would return records where name is 'HELLO' as well.
>
> My data is encoded in Unicode (UTF8) and therefore I cannot use
> Postgre's to_ascii() trick to achieve accent-insensitive searches.
>
> Is there any way I could perform such searches with an UTF8 encoding ?

Check the translate() documentation. It isn't the best thing in the world to
have to use it and code things by yourself, but it works.

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Jorge Godoy <jgodoy(at)gmail(dot)com>