Re: Function ascii(text) character -> byte

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Ian Barwick <barwick(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: "pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Function ascii(text) character -> byte
Date: 2006-03-06 04:53:42
Message-ID: 200603060453.k264rgD12174@candle.pha.pa.us
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Patch applied. Thanks. Your documentation changes can be viewed in
five minutes using links on the developer's page,
http://www.postgresql.org/developer/testing.

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Ian Barwick wrote:
> Hi
>
> in the docs, the function "ascii(text)" is described as
> returning "ASCII code of the first character of the argument"
>
> (see http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/functions-string.html,
> Table 9-6. "Other String Functions").
>
> Presumably this should read "ASCII code of the first byte of the argument",
> which is what is returned when the argument is a multi-byte character
> (although then with UTF-8 at least that might not necessarily be an ASCII
> code).
>
> Regards
>
> Ian Barwick
>
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