| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andreas Kalsch <andreaskalsch(at)gmx(dot)de> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: character 0xe29986 of encoding "UTF8" has no equivalent in "LATIN2" |
| Date: | 2009-08-03 23:23:05 |
| Message-ID: | 20090803232305.GH19615@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Andreas Kalsch wrote:
> My question again: Is there a native Postgres solution to simplify
> characters consistently? It means to completely remove all
> diacriticals from Unicode characters.
There's a to_ascii() function but it supports a subset of charsets, and
IIRC UTF8 is not one of them. Patches welcome.
> I will validate input data on the client side (PHP or Python) and send
> it to the server. Of course the only encoding I will use on any side
> is UTF8. I just wnated to use this Latin thing for simplification of
> characters.
Hmm, seems you're using the wrong tool for that purpose. Changing to a
different encoding does not remove any diacritical marks, only change
the underlying byte encoding.
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