2008/8/11 Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Pavel Stehule wrote: >> >> >> One note - convert_to is correct. But we have to use to_ascii without >> decode functions. It has same behave - convert from bytea to text. >> Text in "incorrect" encoding is dafacto bytea. So correct to_ascii >> function prototypes are: >> >> to_ascii(text) >> to_ascii(bytea, integer); >> to_ascii(bytea, name); >> >> >>> >>> > > What you have not said is how you propose to convert UTF8 to ASCII. > > Currently to_ascii() converts a small number of single byte charsets to > ASCII by folding the chars with high bits set, so what we get is a pure > ASCII result which is safe in any server encoding, as they are all ASCII > supersets. > > But what conversion rule will you use for the gazillions of Unicode > characters? > > I honestly do not understand the use case for this at all. >
It's typical case in czech language, where some searchings are accents insensitive - Stěhule, Stehule, Novotný, Novotny. > cheers > > andrew > -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
