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Craig A. Haney 703.904.2084 craig at icm1.icp.net
Fri Jul 23 12:12:48 CEST 1993

  > (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 ?

since all is normalized to lowercase before a lookup i think it
is OK to have the database show things in capital letters
as long as everyone knows all is treated as lowercase.

summary:
	o view as is stored in the database
	o normalize before performing other operations on the database.

craig

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