Re: Getting rid of accents.. - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Ian Barwick
Subject Re: Getting rid of accents..
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Msg-id 200305280015.02483.barwick@gmx.net
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In response to Getting rid of accents..  (<mallah@trade-india.com>)
Responses Re: Getting rid of accents..  (<mallah@trade-india.com>)
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On Tuesday 27 May 2003 22:55, mallah@trade-india.com wrote:
> Is there any easy way for converting accented text to
> closest text  without accents in postgresql ?
>
> eg:
>
> BÂLÂ MORGHÂB  to  BALA MORGHAB

Have you looked at to_ascii()? Something along the lines of

select to_ascii('Â', 'LATIN1')


Ian Barwick
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