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Case-sensitivity problem [message #15500] Wed, 17 December 2003 15:31 Go to next message
AutoHost is currently offline  AutoHost   United States
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Click 'Members', search By Login using "gribnif" and it says 'none found'. But if you enter in "Gribnif" then it finds it just fine.

Same with my login name.

Must be recent bug, as it works just fine in my v2.3.5 board.


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Re: Case-sensitivity problem [message #15503 is a reply to message #15500] Wed, 17 December 2003 15:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Login names are case sensetive.

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Re: Case-sensitivity problem [message #15516 is a reply to message #15503] Wed, 17 December 2003 18:16 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I think that, for ease of use, this feature really should use a "like" query, so that the search will be case-insensitive.

You can't expect your users to know the exact case of someone whose name is something silly like GrIBnIF (I've seen people do this!)

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Re: Case-sensitivity problem [message #15529 is a reply to message #15516] Wed, 17 December 2003 21:42 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Like query won't help because the field is treated as case sensetive.

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Re: Case-sensitivity problem [message #15533 is a reply to message #15529] Wed, 17 December 2003 22:14 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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You're right. So much for my limited knowledge of SQL Smile

I still think this should be considered, since the search feature isn't very useful as it is, IMHO.
Re: Case-sensitivity problem [message #15534 is a reply to message #15533] Wed, 17 December 2003 22:16 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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It's a balance, if I allow case insensetive searches the 'alias' pool is reduced since you no longer can have Joe and JOE and joe, etc... there can only be 1 joe.

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Re: Case-sensitivity problem [message #15545 is a reply to message #15500] Thu, 18 December 2003 14:05 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Personally, I think that would be a good thing. It would prevent someone from creating a new account called "joe", just so that they can pretend to be "Joe".
Re: Case-sensitivity problem [message #15576 is a reply to message #15545] Fri, 19 December 2003 17:26 Go to previous message
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I agree.

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