Re: Function ascii(text) character -> byte - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Function ascii(text) character -> byte
Date
Msg-id 200603060453.k264rgD12174@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Function ascii(text) character -> byte  (Ian Barwick <barwick@gmx.net>)
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Patch applied.  Thanks.  Your documentation changes can be viewed in
five minutes using links on the developer's page,
http://www.postgresql.org/developer/testing.


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Ian Barwick wrote:
> Hi
>
> in the docs, the function "ascii(text)" is described as
> returning "ASCII code of the first character of the argument"
>
> (see http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/functions-string.html,
> Table  9-6. "Other String Functions").
>
> Presumably this should read "ASCII code of the first byte of the argument",
> which is what is returned when the argument is a multi-byte character
> (although then with UTF-8 at least that might not necessarily be an ASCII
> code).
>
> Regards
>
> Ian Barwick
>
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