Re: BUG #18216: Unaccent function is unable to remove accents (diacritic signs) from Japanese character 'ド'

Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>

To: Francisco Olarte <folarte@peoplecall.com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>

Cc: Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, shailesh.totale@sailpoint.com, pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org

Date: 2023-11-29T10:58:43Z

Lists: pgsql-bugs

On Wed, 2023-11-29 at 10:15 +0100, Francisco Olarte wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2023 at 09:45, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > In the Czech language I can find more examples, where removing diacritics means
> > significant loss and the meaning of the world should be based only on context.
> ...
> That seems even more complex than French, and I've never been able to
> cope with them!

This is far from unusual; see German:

 wurde (became)  <> würde (would)
 schin (already) <> schön (beautiful)

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
>