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Subject: Re: [SQL] Getting rid of accents..
From: Jean-Luc Lachance <jllachan () nsd ! ca>
Date: 2003-05-28 14:05:36
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Have a look at translate(). It behaves like the unix command 'tr'.
Randall Lucas wrote:
>
> Hi Mallah,
>
> I had this problem once, and put together this bunch of regexes. It's
> by no means optimal, but should solve 90% and would easily be adapted
> into a plperl function.
>
> Begin perl:
> $value =~ s/[\xc0-\xc6]/A/g;
> $value =~ s/[\xc7]/C/g;
> $value =~ s/[\xc8-\xcb]/E/g;
> $value =~ s/[\xcc-\xcf]/I/g;
> $value =~ s/[\xd1]/N/g;
> $value =~ s/[\xd2-\xd6\xd8]/O/g;
> $value =~ s/[\xd9-\xdc]/U/g;
> $value =~ s/[\xdd]/Y/g;
>
> $value =~ s/[\xe0-\xe6]/a/g;
> $value =~ s/[\xe7]/c/g;
> $value =~ s/[\xe8-\xeb]/e/g;
> $value =~ s/[\xec-\xef]/i/g;
> $value =~ s/[\xf1]/n/g;
> $value =~ s/[\xf2-\xf6\xd8]/o/g;
> $value =~ s/[\xf9-\xfc]/u/g;
> $value =~ s/[\xfd\xff]/y/g;
>
> On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 04:55 PM, <mallah@trade-india.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Is there any easy way for converting accented text to
> > closest text without accents in postgresql ?
> >
> > eg:
> >
> > B L MORGH B to BALA MORGHAB
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Regds
> > Mallah.
> >
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