David E. Wheeler wrote:
On Apr 14, 2009, at 9:26 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
Another question is "what is the purpose of a database"? To me it would
be quite the wrong thing for the DB to not store what is presented, as
long as it's considered legal. Normalization of legal variant forms
seems pretty questionable. So I'm with the camp that says this is the
application's responsibility.
Can `convert()` normalize strings?
I think that's handling a quite different problem.
It certainly should not do so automatically, IMNSHO.
I think there's a good case for some functions implementing the various
Unicode normalization functions, though.
cheers
andrew
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