Re: unaccent extension missing some accents

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: J Smith <dark(dot)panda+lists(at)gmail(dot)com>, Florian Pflug <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: unaccent extension missing some accents
Date: 2011-11-10 21:18:46
Message-ID: 16372.1320959926@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> However, the bigger picture is that OS X's UTF8 locales are broken
>> through-and-through, and most of their other problems are not feasible
>> to work around.

> If Apple's low-level code came from FreeBSD and NetBSD, how did they get
> so broken?

AFAIK, they're broken in the BSDen too, or at least were when Apple
branched off from whichever BSD they started from (which was years ago).
There may be a better solution available upstream by now, but it doesn't
appear to me that Apple has any interest in fixing this area.

regards, tom lane

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