Re: [SQL] Internationalisation: SELECT str (ignoring Umlauts/Accents) - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Benedikt Eric Heinen
Subject Re: [SQL] Internationalisation: SELECT str (ignoring Umlauts/Accents)
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.3.96.980622135105.29726B-100000@fenun.icemark.ch
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In response to Re: [SQL] Internationalisation: SELECT str (ignoring Umlauts/Accents)  (Patrice Hédé <patrice@idf.net>)
Responses Re: [SQL] Internationalisation: SELECT str (ignoring Umlauts/Accents)  (Patrice Hédé <patrice@idf.net>)
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> patrice=> select accents( 'zurich' );
> accents
> ------------------------------
> z[uúÚùÙûÛüÜ]r[iíÍìÌîÎïÏ][cçÇ]h

This brings up another interesting question -- will
"upper(accentuated-string)" upcase the string properly (including upcasing
accentuated characters)? e.g. will upper("zürich") become "ZüRICH" or
"ZÜRICH"?



I'll have a look at the accents source later today...


   Benedikt

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