I've created the following stored procedure to allow me to do
international-insensitive text searches, e.g. a search for "Resume" would
match the text "Résumé".
I wanted to know:
a) am I missing any characters that need to be converted? My first (and only
language) is English, so I'm in the dark when that is concerned;
b) is there a better and/or faster way of implementing this? I don't want
searches to bog down (at least too badly) as a result of this.
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION i18n2ascii (TEXT) RETURNS TEXT AS ' my ($source) = @_; $source =~
tr/áàâäéèêëíìîïóòôöúùûüÁÀÂÄÉÈÊËÍÌÎÏÓÒÔÖÚÙÛÜ/aaaaeeeeiiiioooouuuuAAAAEEEEIIIIOOOOUUUU/; return $source;
' LANGUAGE 'plperl';
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