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Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet
woeber at cc.univie.ac.at
Fri Jul 23 10:49:27 CEST 1993
Marten, >Sorry Piet, old, old, old software ... The new software will take care of >this, but I think the new software will change everything to lowercase. I >have not written this part yet, have to put some thought in it though. > >Anyone in the database working group has any feeling how these should be >dealt with ? From a programming point of view, handling everything lowercase >is much easier, I do not really want to check every single combination of >lower/uppercase before I update something ... Then again, after some thinking >(I usually type faster than I think ;-) the indexing is done in lowercase, >and key lookups are always normalized to lowercase before a lookup. > >So the real question is, should entries in the database be left untouched >when it comes to upper/lowercase, or should all be normalized ? I'd prefer the following behaviour: - In the external representation keep it exactly as it was submitted, with mixed case intact. - Internally, whenever you use this string for an index, compare or lookup, consistently convert it to lowercase, thus prohibiting duplicates with different case. I think this would even be in line with the current behaviour of other programs... I don't have any idea what this would mean to the implementer programming-wise... Wilfried.
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