From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
Cc: | "Decibel!" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>, Stuart <smcg2297(at)frii(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development list <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] ascii() for utf8 |
Date: | 2007-09-14 03:19:56 |
Message-ID: | 200709140319.l8E3JuS19926@momjian.us |
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Decibel! wrote:
> > Moving to -hackers.
> >
> > On Jul 27, 2007, at 1:22 PM, Stuart wrote:
> >> Does Postgresql have a function like ascii() that will
> >> return the unicode codepoint value for a utf8 character?
> >> (And symmetrically same for question chr() of course).
>
> > I suspect that this is just a matter of no one scratching the itch. I
> > suspect a patch would be accepted, or you could possibly put something on
> > pgFoundry.
>
> Nay; there were some discussions about this not long ago, and I think
> one conclusion you could draw from them is that many people want these
> functions in the backend.
>
> > I'd set it up so that ascii() and chr() act according to the
> > appropriate locale setting (I'm not sure which one would be appropriate).
>
> I don't see why any of them would react to the locale, but they surely
> must honor client encoding.
>
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