Re: Back to Hebrew, was OT:darn'd fools

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On 2003.07.29, 23:24, Jim Allan <jallan@smrtytrek.com> wrote:

> A shocking number of corporate data-bases in Canada, certainly the
> majority, continue to maintain customer/subscriber/policy
> holder/cardholder data only in uppercase and without diacritics.

Yup, and not only in Canada, I'm sure. They say legacy data, EBCDIC,
cross platform, better do nothing than do something, it's been always
like that, I say unicode, they shrug.

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