Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 11:09:17PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: >> 'OE' and 'oe', most likely, but someone more familiar with French >> typography might correct me.
> OE and oe would be correct, but we can't do that with the current code. More to the point, there are no such characters in 7-bit ASCII. I think Alvaro might be suggesting that to_ascii() should expand these to the two-character sequences "OE" and "oe", but ISTM that opens a can of worms better left sealed. There are a *lot* of characters that have translations of differing levels of plausibility into ASCII. I'm okay with dropping accent marks but I'm not sure about doing more than that. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html