On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 07:20:21PM +0200, Andreas Kalsch wrote: > Has somebody integrated Unicode normalization into Postgres? if not, I > would have to implement my own function by using this CPAN module: > http://search.cpan.org/~sadahiro/Unicode-Normalize-1.03/ . > > I need a function which removes all diacritics (1) and transforms some > characters to a more compatible form (2) to get a better index on > strings. > > Best, > > Andi > > > 1) à,ä, ... => a > 2) ø => o, ƒ => f, ª => a
You mean something like this? http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Strip_accents_from_strings%2C_and_output_in_lowercase Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
