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echo: os2prog
to: Peter Hansen
from: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
date: 1995-03-05 06:56:24
subject: Ignoring case

ZZ>
  > What possible difference could that make?  Even in routines such as C's
  > stricmp() "ignoring case" is generally performed by converting both
  > compared characters to uppercase for the duration of the compare.
ZZ>

  John is implying that there's not necessarily a one-to-one mapping
  between lower and upper case in all character sets.

  > JdeBP <
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