Re: BUG #15548: Unaccent does not remove combining diacritical characters

On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 3:05 PM Thomas Munro
<thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 12:03 PM Hugh Ranalli <hugh(at)whtc(dot)ca> wrote:
> +ʹ '
> +ʺ "
> +ʻ '
> +ʼ '
> +ʽ '
> +˂ <
> +˃ >
> +˄ ^
> +ˆ ^
> +ˈ '
> +ˋ `
> +ː :
> +˖ +
> +˗ -
> +˜ ~
>
> I don't think this is quite right. Those don't seem to be the
> combining codepoints[1], and in any case they are being replaced with
> ASCII characters, whereas I thought we wanted to replace them with
> nothing at all. Here is my attempt to come up with a test case using
> combining characters:
>
> select unaccent('un café crème s''il vous plaît');

Oh, I see now that that was just the v34 ASCII transliteration update,
and perhaps the diacritic stripping will be posted separately.

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Thomas Munro
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