Some details on a moderated pianotech

Ron Nossaman rnossaman@cox.net
Thu, 06 May 2004 10:47:36 -0500


>I just now checked to see whether the filters on my long-in-the-tooth 
>Eudora 4.2 were case sensitive. NO THEY WEREN'T!. (Why should I expect a 
>low-grade text manager like an email client app to care about such 
>sophisticated distinctions such as UC/LC, let alone details like tracking 
>and leading and drop caps.?) Then there are all the other exceptions you 
>provide.

Not being case sensitive isn't a lack of sophistication. It is somewhat 
more trouble for the programmer to make the parser case insensitive. Not a 
lot, but it has to be done specifically so it was intentional.

Ron N


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