Re: unaccent

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Karel Zak wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 03:08:59PM +0300, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 nngodinh(at)tiscali(dot)it wrote:
> > >
> > > Get libunac from: http://www.nongnu.org/unac/ (it uses iconv)
> > >
> > > Extract the archive, compile it (make). Move pg_unac.so to your postgresql
> > > shared libraries dir.
> > >
> > I think better to have separate module contrib/unac and document using
> > it with tsearch. Please write us a couple of lines about using
> > your function and we'll add them into tsearch documentation.
>
> I think about --with-unaccent for PostgreSQL and to_ascii() in
> main tree. Comment?

Hmm, it'd require linking yet another library. contrib module is
a standard way to test/develope possible future feature.

>
> Karel
>
>

Regards,
Oleg
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