Paul,

> Well, as Martijn discovered (much to my surprise and joy) there are
> collations for the ISO8859_1 charset that are case insensitive. I
> checked du_nl, en_uk, en_us and de_de with positive results.

not completely, as it seems, since Martijn reported they aren't working
in the where clause (which is their main field of application I
suppose).
Ciao
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