Re: proposal: UTF8 to_ascii function

2008/8/11 Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>:
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> Pavel Stehule wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> to_ascii(text)
>> to_ascii(bytea, integer);
>> to_ascii(bytea, name);
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> What you have not said is how you propose to convert UTF8 to ASCII.
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> 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.
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> But what conversion rule will you use for the gazillions of Unicode
> characters?
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> I honestly do not understand the use case for this at all.
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It's typical case in czech language, where some searchings are accents
insensitive - Stěhule, Stehule, Novotný, Novotny.

> cheers
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> andrew
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