Re: Regular expression to UPPER() a lower case string

On 2022-12-10 15:48:58 +0100, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> On second thought you could probably use NFD normalization to separate
> base letters from accents, uppercase the base letters and then
> (optionally) NFC normalize everything again.

Of course I had to try that:

wds=> select
    normalize(
        replace(
            replace(
                replace(
                    replace(
                        normalize('Käse', NFD),
                        's', 'S'
                    ),
                    'k', 'K'
                ),
                'e', 'E'
            ),
            'a', 'A'
        ),
    NFC
    )
;
╔═══════════╗
║ normalize ║
╟───────────╢
║ KÄSE      ║
╚═══════════╝
(1 row)

Works as expected.

> Still insane ;-).

I haven't changed my mind about that.

        hp


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