2008/8/11 Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Monday 11 August 2008 16:23:29 Jan Urbański wrote: >> Often clients want their searches to be >> accented-or-language-specific letters insensitive. So searching for >> 'łódź' returns 'lodz'. So the use case is there (in fact, the lack of >> such facility made me consider not upgrading particular client to 8.3...). > > These are valid ideas, but then please design a new function that addresses > your use case in a well-defined way, and don't overload questionable old > interfaces for new purposes. > > In the Unicode standard you can find well-defined methods to decompose > characters into diacritic marks, and then you could strip them off. But this > has nothing to do with ASCII or UTF8 or encodings. Cyrillic characters can > have diacritic marks as well, for example. >
Hi Peter, changes to_ascii from text to bytea is more bugfix than new feature and should be done immediately. Correct conversions are related to colum collation - is not necessary repeat same work and same code from some unicode libs. Regards Pavel -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
