Re: Accent insensitive search? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Accent insensitive search?
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Msg-id 20090318182436.GI3798@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Accent insensitive search?  (Thom Brown <thombrown@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Accent insensitive search?  (Christophe <xof@thebuild.com>)
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Thom Brown escribió:
> Here's an example of a function I might use (although I haven't actually got
> plperl installed, so can't test it myself, but you'll get the idea:
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION unaccent_string(text) RETURNS text AS $$
> my ($input_string) = @_;
> $input_string =~ s/[âãäåāăą]/a;
> $input_string =~ s/[ÁÂÃÄÅĀĂĄ]/A;

Hmm, if to_ascii() doesn't work, that's something worth some research.
Maybe the encoding config is broken, for example.

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