On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 10:16:22PM +0100, Ji?í N?mec wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to remove diacritical marks from a string in a SQL query.
> I tried to convert a UTF8 string to ASCII but it doesn't work for me.
>
> SELECT convert('?????ýáíé','UTF8','SQL_ASCII')
I don't think postgres has any stuff builtin for that, but other
languages (like perl) have modules to do this kind of thing. The method
is to decompose the string to normal form D, strip the diacritics, and
recompose what's left.
Hope this helps,
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