* Stuart Buchanan -- Monday 02 June 2008: > Nevertheless, I think these are acceptable numbers for a 3 character > string. The user can easily perform a more specific search on receiving > a large number of results.
As I told on IRC already, the current case-sensitive behavior wasn't an accident or laziness. It allowed a more precise search string with less hits. This seemed useful at times where airport names were consistently and correctly capitalized. Unfortunately, current apt.dat is a complete mess in this regard, so case-sensitivity turned into a disadvantage, and I agree that case-insensitivity is now desirable. (Well, fixing apt.dat would be even better, but not in our responsibility.) BTW: that ICAO codes are output in parentheses is also not just a cosmetic issue: this was done to allow searching for all French airports with "(LF", for (almost) all Austrian military airports with "(LOX" etc. m. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
