Re: character 0xe29986 of encoding "UTF8" has no equivalent in "LATIN2"

So there is definitely no way to this natively? Which would be better
because this an easy task, which should be part of the main distribution.

What is more performant - has anyone made a benchmark?

1) Perl:
http://markmail.org/message/2jpp7p26ohreqnsh?q=plperlu+iconv+postgresql&page=1&refer=2jpp7p26ohreqnsh
2) Python: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Strip_accents_from_strings
... Other languages

Thank you,

Andi