Andreas Kalsch wrote:
> The function "convert_to(string text, dest_encoding name)" will
> throw an error and so break my application when not supported
> characters are included in the unicode string.
> So what can I do
> - to filter characters out which have no counterpart in the latin codesets
> - or to simple ignore wrong characters?
Perhaps this is useful:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Strip_accents_from_strings
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