Re: Encoding problem

Albe Laurenz a écrit :
>> I am trying to remove accents from a string. I found a nice
>> solution for this on postgresqlfr, using the to_ascii()
>> function.
>>
>> Now, the problem I have is :
>>
>> mydb=# SELECT to_ascii(convert('abcdef', 'LATIN9'));
>> ERROR: encoding conversion from UTF8 to ASCII not supported
>>
>> Why is the conversion to LATIN9 not working as expected ?
>> My database's encoding is UTF8.
>
> Maybe you actually want to
>
> test=> select to_ascii(convert('ábcdêf', 'LATIN9'), 'LATIN9');
> to_ascii
> ----------
> abcdef
> (1 row)

Indeed !!!
Thanks a lot !
I suppose that not giving the encoding to 'to_ascii'
defaulted to the database encoding ?
Sorry for this mistake, I did not realize that this setting
existed for the to_ascii function...

Thanks again !

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Arnaud