Decibel! wrote: > Moving to -hackers. > > On Jul 27, 2007, at 1:22 PM, Stuart wrote: >> Does Postgresql have a function like ascii() that will >> return the unicode codepoint value for a utf8 character? >> (And symmetrically same for question chr() of course).
> I suspect that this is just a matter of no one scratching the itch. I > suspect a patch would be accepted, or you could possibly put something on > pgFoundry. Nay; there were some discussions about this not long ago, and I think one conclusion you could draw from them is that many people want these functions in the backend. > I'd set it up so that ascii() and chr() act according to the > appropriate locale setting (I'm not sure which one would be appropriate). I don't see why any of them would react to the locale, but they surely must honor client encoding. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.PlanetPostgreSQL.org/ "I dream about dreams about dreams", sang the nightingale under the pale moon (Sandman) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
