| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Greg Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, - - <crossroads0000(at)googlemail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Unicode support |
| Date: | 2009-04-14 17:52:41 |
| Message-ID: | 49E4CD69.2010408@dunslane.net |
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David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Apr 14, 2009, at 9:26 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> Another question is "what is the purpose of a database"? To me it would
>> be quite the wrong thing for the DB to not store what is presented, as
>> long as it's considered legal. Normalization of legal variant forms
>> seems pretty questionable. So I'm with the camp that says this is the
>> application's responsibility.
>
> Can `convert()` normalize strings?
>
>
I think that's handling a quite different problem.
It certainly should not do so automatically, IMNSHO.
I think there's a good case for some functions implementing the various
Unicode normalization functions, though.
cheers
andrew
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