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On 23/11/2011 2:32 PM, Volker Borchert wrote:
> Roedy Green wrote:
>
>> The only beast I know of that takes a compareIgnoreCase is a String.
>
> What about Collator?

The *things being compared* are still Strings ...

> (If only to reliably avoid lock acquisition order problems.)

Software Transactional Memory.