> 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)
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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