Re: BUG #18216: Unaccent function is unable to remove accents (diacritic signs) from Japanese character 'ド'

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Francisco Olarte <folarte(at)peoplecall(dot)com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, shailesh(dot)totale(at)sailpoint(dot)com, pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #18216: Unaccent function is unable to remove accents (diacritic signs) from Japanese character 'ド'
Date: 2023-11-29 10:58:43
Message-ID: 4abceafa92ea703380969a39fe890594547cefcf.camel@cybertec.at
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On Wed, 2023-11-29 at 10:15 +0100, Francisco Olarte wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2023 at 09:45, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > In the Czech language I can find more examples, where removing diacritics means
> > significant loss and the meaning of the world should be based only on context.
> ...
> That seems even more complex than French, and I've never been able to
> cope with them!

This is far from unusual; see German:

wurde (became) <> würde (would)
schin (already) <> schön (beautiful)

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
>

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