Bonjour kayclAn :-)
As for person's names, I agree: reformatting them using lower and
upper cases at the right place in all cases is not *practically*
possible and, often, the way to go is to capitalize them completely :-)
But I assume that there are other 'columns' that could be smartly
reformatted.
Best regards from Paris,
Eric Chatonet.
Le 29 févr. 08 à 12:10, Kay C Lan a écrit :
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Eric Chatonet <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I would
like to consider this problem from another point of view :-)
Instead of having to search for all forms ('smith', 'Smith' or
'SMITH') I would rather prefer to reformat user entries as soon as
they are done to match a 'style' sheet that will make all data
display consistent.
Whilst I fully agree that there are many instances where formating
data on
entry is the way to go (date, time, money, Countries, States, etc
etc,) I
believe a person's Name is not one of them. Unless no one else is
going to
see it but you. Here are a couple of sample names:
da Vinci
deJorgne
O'Loghlen
McDonald
MacDonald
Smith-Clark
A simple capitalise the first letter of the word might render this.
Da Vinci
Dejorgne
O'loghlen
Mcdonald
Macdonald
Smith-clark
The code to format names so that they are 'correctly' capitalised
is far far
more complex and time consuming that the simple solution offered by
Len;
case insensitive searches.
Why would it matter, it doesn't if you're the only one who sees it,
but if
it's viewed by a wider audience, particularly the very people whose
names
are entered (ie, it goes on mailing labels or appears in the company
directory), you might be surprised at how many get touchy when you
can't
spell or capitalise their name correctly - especially when they're
higher up
the food chain;-)
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