Re: unaccent

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 nngodinh(at)tiscali(dot)it wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> As far as I use the txtidx data structure in conjunction with gist indexing
> to make a word indexing of a very large UNICODE db, I've implemented a PostgreSQL
> function that uses libunac to unaccent TEXT fileds.
>
> The resulting text is in UTF-8, but you can modify it in the sources with
> an appropriate value (using iconv charset names).
>
> Get libunac from: http://www.nongnu.org/unac/ (it uses iconv)
>
> Extract the archive, compile it (make). Move pg_unac.so to your postgresql
> shared libraries dir.
>
> Link it in postgresql:
>
> CREATE FUNCTION unac(TEXT) RETURNS TEXT AS 'path_to_pg_unac.so' LANGUAGE
> C;
>
> What about integrating unaccent libraries directly in tsearch? It is useful
> for french search engines (for instance).

I think better to have separate module contrib/unac and document using
it with tsearch. Please write us a couple of lines about using
your function and we'll add them into tsearch documentation.

btw, use palloc instead of malloc in postgresql functions .

>
> Bye.
>
> Nhan NGO DINH
>
>
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