Re: unaccent extension missing some accents - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: unaccent extension missing some accents
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Msg-id 16372.1320959926@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: unaccent extension missing some accents  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.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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