Re: How to convert HEX to ASCII?

Marti Raudsepp schrieb:
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 16:16, Torsten Zuehlsdorff
> <foo@meisterderspiele.de> wrote:
>> But i clearly have a missunderstanding of other chars, like umlauts or utf-8
>> chars. This, for example, should return a 'ö':
>>
>> # SELECT chr(x'C3B6'::int);
>>  chr
>> -----
>>  쎶
>> (1 row)
>
> That gives you the Unicode codepoint C3B6, but %C3%B6 is UTF-8-encoded
> and actually decodes to the codepoint 00F6.
>
> There is a fundamental problem that a decoded URL may actually be a
> binary string -- it might not have a textual representation at all.
> But if text is what you want, RFC3986 strongly suggests using UTF-8
> for encoding text strings in URLs, and that works almost always in the
> real world.

Text is what i want. :) I've created a highly specialiced CMS, which
handle a bunch of big sites (in meaning of a great numbers of users and
content). It has a build-in traffic-analyze and with this function it
creates a real time analyze of the keywords, a user used to find the
sites in search engines. This is very needful if you try to do SEO for
websites with more than 20.000 unique content-pages. :)

> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION url_decode(input text) RETURNS text
> LANGUAGE plpgsql IMMUTABLE STRICT AS $$
> DECLARE
>   bin bytea = '';
>   byte text;
> BEGIN
>   FOR byte IN (select (regexp_matches(input, '(%..|.)', 'g'))[1]) LOOP
>     IF length(byte) = 3 THEN
>       bin = bin || decode(substring(byte, 2, 2), 'hex');
>     ELSE
>       bin = bin || byte::bytea;
>     END IF;
>   END LOOP;
>   RETURN convert_from(bin, 'utf8');
> END
> $$;

Hey, this function looks similar to my encoding function :) Thank you
very munch!

> This will break for binary-encoded data in URLs, though.

Thats no problem, i just have text.

Big thanks to all of you,
Torsten