Re: Getting rid of accents..

Hi Mallah,

I had this problem once, and put together this bunch of regexes. It's
by no means optimal, but should solve 90% and would easily be adapted
into a plperl function.

Begin perl:
$value =~ s/[\xc0-\xc6]/A/g;
$value =~ s/[\xc7]/C/g;
$value =~ s/[\xc8-\xcb]/E/g;
$value =~ s/[\xcc-\xcf]/I/g;
$value =~ s/[\xd1]/N/g;
$value =~ s/[\xd2-\xd6\xd8]/O/g;
$value =~ s/[\xd9-\xdc]/U/g;
$value =~ s/[\xdd]/Y/g;

$value =~ s/[\xe0-\xe6]/a/g;
$value =~ s/[\xe7]/c/g;
$value =~ s/[\xe8-\xeb]/e/g;
$value =~ s/[\xec-\xef]/i/g;
$value =~ s/[\xf1]/n/g;
$value =~ s/[\xf2-\xf6\xd8]/o/g;
$value =~ s/[\xf9-\xfc]/u/g;
$value =~ s/[\xfd\xff]/y/g;

On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 04:55 PM, <mallah(at)trade-india(dot)com> wrote:

>
>
> Is there any easy way for converting accented text to
> closest text without accents in postgresql ?
>
> eg:
>
> BÂLÂ MORGHÂB to BALA MORGHAB
>
>
>
>
> Regds
> Mallah.
>
>
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