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Re: contains

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Subject	Re: contains
Date	2011-09-08 20:14 -0400
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On 08/09/2011 3:37 PM, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
> I'm not exactly advising any programmer to deal with just ASCII; what I
> am saying here is that if you know that your text is ASCII text (*way*
> more common than you make out) that lowercasing and uppercasing in this
> particular situation is a potential approach. By ASCII text I still mean
> Unicode; simply the ASCII subset thereof.

Not only that -- if everything is passed through 
.toLowerCase().toUpperCase() then the input set of strings gets 
projected down onto a particular set of canonical representations. Some 
stuff will get conflated, but I think they amount only to alternative 
spellings of the same thing -- so finding matches among them does amount 
to there being substrings in common among the original inputs.

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      Re: contains Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-09-08 11:33 -0300
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          Re: contains Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-09-08 18:59 +0000
            Re: contains Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-09-08 16:59 -0700
          Re: contains Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-09-08 16:37 -0300
            Re: contains supercalifragilisticexpialadiamaticonormalizeringelimatisticantations <supercalifragilisticexpialadiamaticonormalizeringelimatisticantations@averylongandannoyingdomainname.com> - 2011-09-08 20:14 -0400
  Re: contains Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-09-08 20:05 -0400

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