Seaching with and without diacritical marks - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Ullrich Ralf
Subject Seaching with and without diacritical marks
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Msg-id 594F2B88520FB045BA370245CB19BBF06866EB@ExchangePK1.pk.de
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Responses Re: Seaching with and without diacritical marks  (Mike G <mike@thegodshalls.com>)
Re: Seaching with and without diacritical marks  (Lynna Landstreet <lynna@gallery44.org>)
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Hello,

I have a multilingual portal running on PostgreSQL 7.4.2.
My clients come from spain,portugal, latin america and germany (mainly).
The main feature of the site is a search engine that retrieves bibliographic data, which is stored in
my database (unicode!) with diacritical marks (e.g. Panamá,América); when users enter their search terms with
diacriticalmarks postgres will find the requested records, but if a german user enter Panama or America (without
diacriticalmarks), the  search fails.  
Is there any extension for postgres that allows for both modes of searching on the same data?

Yours,

Ralf Ullrich

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