Function ascii(text) character -> byte

Started by Ian Lawrence Barwickabout 20 years ago2 messagesdocs
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#1Ian Lawrence Barwick
barwick@gmail.com

Hi

in the docs, the function "ascii(text)" is described as
returning "ASCII code of the first character of the argument"

(see http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/functions-string.html,
Table 9-6. "Other String Functions").

Presumably this should read "ASCII code of the first byte of the argument",
which is what is returned when the argument is a multi-byte character
(although then with UTF-8 at least that might not necessarily be an ASCII
code).

Regards

Ian Barwick

#2Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Ian Lawrence Barwick (#1)
Re: Function ascii(text) character -> byte

Patch applied. Thanks. Your documentation changes can be viewed in
five minutes using links on the developer's page,
http://www.postgresql.org/developer/testing.

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Ian Barwick wrote:

Hi

in the docs, the function "ascii(text)" is described as
returning "ASCII code of the first character of the argument"

(see http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/functions-string.html,
Table 9-6. "Other String Functions").

Presumably this should read "ASCII code of the first byte of the argument",
which is what is returned when the argument is a multi-byte character
(although then with UTF-8 at least that might not necessarily be an ASCII
code).

Regards

Ian Barwick

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