Re: PDQ: Case insensitive key lookup in LF and/or PF? -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: PDQ: Case insensitive key lookup in LF and/or PF?
From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:30:56 -0600
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Bruce Vining wrote:

Having duplicate fields in the file where you monocase using an API
such as QlgConvertCase would solve this exposure.

Thanks, this is what we're going to do for now.

And moving to Unicode would simplify the monocasing in addition to
positioning you to easy globalization in the future.

True ... but that would probably mean completely restructuring our
database ... which we're not prepared to do at this point.

david

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