Document the fact that fuzzystrmatch doesn't work in multibyte encodings.
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Mon, 6 Apr 2009 15:43:00 +0000 (15:43 +0000)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Mon, 6 Apr 2009 15:43:00 +0000 (15:43 +0000)
doc/src/sgml/fuzzystrmatch.sgml

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-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/fuzzystrmatch.sgml,v 1.4 2008/04/03 21:13:07 tgl Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/fuzzystrmatch.sgml,v 1.5 2009/04/06 15:43:00 tgl Exp $ -->
 
 <sect1 id="fuzzystrmatch">
  <title>fuzzystrmatch</title>
   functions to determine similarities and distance between strings.
  </para>
 
+ <caution>
+  <para>
+   At present, <filename>fuzzystrmatch</> does not work well with
+   multi-byte encodings (such as UTF-8).
+  </para>
+ </caution>
+
  <sect2>
   <title>Soundex</title>