Subject: Re: Allow to_date() and to_timestamp() to accept localized names
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On 2020-01-28 03:11, Tom Lane wrote:
> The other question your example raises is whether we should be trying
> to de-accent before comparison, ie was it right for 'Ιανουάριος' to
> be treated differently from 'Ιανουαριος'.  I don't know enough Greek
> to say, but it kind of feels like that should be outside to_date's
> purview.

To clarify, nothing in my examples was meant to imply that de-accenting 
might be necessary.  AFAICT, the accented forms are the only 
linguistically acceptable forms and all the locale libraries accept them 
correctly in their accented forms.

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