SSA-1.1

[Francois Ochsenbein (ext.52429)]

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>> 2) ignore case
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>> I don't see how on earth you can ignore case in a target name. This introduces many kinds
>> of ambiguities, of which variable star designations is only one....
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>Of course until we have exact and powrfull mechanism like regular
>expression - which would require escaping and render the URL unreadable
>...  we cannot exactly select what we want by TARGETNAME
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>However concerning the ambiguity:
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>1) I rememeber variable star list printed on row printer using ONLY
>CAPITAL letters  and in fact the minima predictions in some interfaces
>are still in upper-case only.
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Untrue -- u Her and U Her are 2 different stars (as an example)...

Francois

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