On 28/06/10 17:22, Neubert Joachim wrote:
I want to convert accented characters to the according base character, e.g. "Ü" or "Ú" to "U".
I have the following: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION unaccent(TEXT) RETURNS TEXT AS $$ use Text::Unaccent; return unac_string('UTF8', $_[0]); $$ LANGUAGE plperlu IMMUTABLE STRICT; On debian you need the following package: libtext-unaccent-perl Kind regards, Mathieu