Re: Unicode support - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David E. Wheeler
Subject Re: Unicode support
Date
Msg-id 4D6C89D9-ABC9-41FF-9626-AF1B06BA2BA2@kineticode.com
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In response to Re: Unicode support  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Unicode support  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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On Apr 14, 2009, at 9:26 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Another question is "what is the purpose of a database"?  To me it  
> would
> be quite the wrong thing for the DB to not store what is presented, as
> long as it's considered legal.  Normalization of legal variant forms
> seems pretty questionable.  So I'm with the camp that says this is the
> application's responsibility.

Can `convert()` normalize strings?

Best,

David


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