What I've been able to glean from all the posts is that nobody knows
if anyone is actively working on case-insensitive collation for Linux
and that while technically possible to implement, there isn't any
major drive to get this done. It appears that IB/FB users are
comfortable using the trigger / duplicate data / maybe with a view
method to sort their data and don't see a compelling reason to
implement a method similar to the Oracle, DB2, MSSQL, MySQL, et al
way. Some people consider doing so a bad thing.

Thank you all for the replies to my (many) questions. I learned a lot.

Darryl


--- In ib-support@yahoogroups.com, "Ann W. Harrison" <aharrison@i...>
wrote:

> Darryl,
>
> >> Would a linux port of the case-insensitive collations
> > > help?
> >
> >Yes. It would help a lot.
> >
> >Unfortunately in order to get what I want,
> >I'm going to have to rely on the kindness of strangers for this one.
>
> The collations exist, but have not yet been ported
> to Linux. That should be a reasonably simple exercise,
> since they're not graphic.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Ann
> www.ibphoenix.com
> We have answers.