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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:00:48 +1100
From: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
To: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: MySQLdb compare lower
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On 12Dec2012 02:03, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
| 	According to the old "MySQL Language Reference" 
| """
| By default, string comparisons are not case sensitive and will use the
| current character set (ISO-8859-1 Latin1 by default, which also works
| excellently for English).
| """

I'm flabbergasted. [... consults the internets ...] It is still the case
today:-( Ouch.

Thank you for this reality check.
-- 
Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>

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