Subject | Re: [firebird-support] How to eliminate accents |
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Author | Dean Harding |
Post date | 2007-12-03T20:43:46Z |
Fabiano Bonin wrote:
character with an accent to one person is a totally different character
to another. For example, ask a Swede whether you should convert "å" to
"a" during your "remove accents" step.
If you have a UDF that does what you want, I think you should just stick
with that...
Dean.
> Hi all,That's not something I would want Firebird to be able to do. An
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> I have a field defined with charset ISO8859_1 and collation PT_BR.
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> There are accented values stored in its records.
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> Is there a way to get these values without accents and in uppercase?
character with an accent to one person is a totally different character
to another. For example, ask a Swede whether you should convert "å" to
"a" during your "remove accents" step.
If you have a UDF that does what you want, I think you should just stick
with that...
Dean.