Hi Helen,

> > p.51 (end of first paragraph):
> > A CONTAINING search is not case-sensitive.
>
> > Maybe a comment/warning on accent-sensitivity?
>
> I think you might be the first person involved with this text who has
> day-to-day experience with data in a language with accented
> characters.  What is there to say?

Two short tests using iso8859_1 and utf8 reveal that CONTAINING is 
accent-sensitive, i.e.

  'ABCDEFG' containing 'DÉF'

is false, *unless* an accent-insensitive collation is used. 

I assume it's the same with other character sets.


Cheers,
Paul

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