Re: BUG #18216: Unaccent function is unable to remove accents (diacritic signs) from Japanese character 'ド' - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Laurenz Albe
Subject Re: BUG #18216: Unaccent function is unable to remove accents (diacritic signs) from Japanese character 'ド'
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Msg-id 4abceafa92ea703380969a39fe890594547cefcf.camel@cybertec.at
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In response to Re: BUG #18216: Unaccent function is unable to remove accents (diacritic signs) from Japanese character 'ド'  (Francisco Olarte <folarte@peoplecall.com>)
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On Wed, 2023-11-29 at 10:15 +0100, Francisco Olarte wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2023 at 09:45, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > In the Czech language I can find more examples, where removing diacritics means
> > significant loss and the meaning of the world should be based only on context.
> ...
> That seems even more complex than French, and I've never been able to
> cope with them!

This is far from unusual; see German:

 wurde (became)  <> würde (would)
 schin (already) <> schön (beautiful)

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
>



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