Στις Παρασκευή 23 Φεβρουάριος 2007 14:12, ο/η j n έγραψε: > Hi > > i need to get rid of acute, and other special symbols from letters. Is any > way how to do it easy in postgres ? > > i need conversion like this from slovak language ... : > > é, ě -> e > á, ä -> a > š -> s > > i tried : > > SELECT to_ascii('ščďť') > > i get an error : ERROR: encoding conversion from UTF8 to ASCII not > supported > > that i found something like this > > SELECT convert('ščďť', 'UTF8', 'LATIN1') > > i get an error : ERROR: character 0xc5a1 of encoding "UTF8" has no > equivalent in "LATIN1" > > Is any way how to do it ? > If there is not build in support for this conversion can i create my own ? Trying to resort to iso-8859-2 (the western slavic script) is not doing you any good, since you simply recode those chars in UTF-8 to their latin2 counterparts. How about translate('your slovak text','éěáäš','eeaas'); > > pls help -- Achilleas Mantzios