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From: Ian Barwick <barwick@gmx.net>
To: <mallah@trade-india.com>, <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Getting rid of accents..
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 00:15:02 +0200
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On Tuesday 27 May 2003 22:55, mallah@trade-india.com wrote:
> Is there any easy way for converting accented text to
> closest text  without accents in postgresql ?
>
> eg:
>
> BÂLÂ MORGHÂB  to  BALA MORGHAB

Have you looked at to_ascii()? Something along the lines of

select to_ascii('Â', 'LATIN1')


Ian Barwick
barwick@gmx.net