Well, it requires multibyte: when I tried to run it in my database, I had
ERROR: Multi-byte support is not enabled.
Manuel Sugawara wrote:
>Leandro Fanzone <leandro@hasar.com> writes:
>
>
>
>>I have a table with a text field:
>>
>>
>>
>[...]
>
>
>>SELECT myfield FROM mytable
>>WHERE TRANSLATE(LOWER(myfield), '[accented vowels collection]', '[respetive
>>non-accented vowels]')
>>
>>
>
>I faced the same problem and, equivalente to your approach, I used a
>combination of to_ascii and upper/lower:
>
>test=# select to_ascii('áéíóúñ');
> to_ascii
>----------
> aeioun
>(1 row)
>
>create or replace function to_uascii( text ) as '
>select upper(to_ascii($1)) as result
>' language 'sql';
>
>I'm wondering whatever this approach works for multibyte encodings
>(UTF-8 and such).
>
>Regards,
>Manuel.
>
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