> I think the problem at hand has nothing at all to do with agglutination
> or CJK-specific issues. You will get the same problem with other
> languages *if* you set a locale that does not adequately support the
> characters in use. E.g., Russian with locale C and encoding UTF8:
>
> select similarity(E'\u0441\u043B\u043E\u043D', E'\u0441\u043B\u043E
> \u043D\u044B');
> similarity
> ────────────
> NaN
> (1 row)
Of course. That's why I started this thread.
With my patch:
test=# select similarity(E'\u0441\u043B\u043E\u043D', E'\u0441\u043B\u043E\u043D\u044B');similarity
------------ 0.75
(1 row)
Or you could just #undef KEEPONLYALNUM in trgm.h. But I'm not sure
this is the right thing for you.
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