For some of my clients with huge amounts of direrct mailing, we maintain a table of exceptions to the MCT problem.
All of the 50 states (add AU and NZ if you wish), the III's, the MD etc. If, after sending the string thru MCT, any 'words' (punctuation regarded) that are in this file (capitalized) then the 001 of that file is the replacement word. One music client has LeAnn Rimes in their database and uses the same concept. Thus LeaNn turns into LEANN and 001 is LeAnn. My 1 cEnt. Mark Johnson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laura Hirsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 8:15 AM Subject: RE: [U2] Upper Case Only > I think that the upper/lower case issue -- albeit not a show stopper for > anyone - is "much worse than that". > > Besides the "internal" back-n-forth about programming in basic, and what > case should be "current", I think that a bigger issue revolves around data > presentation and converting to a "modern" display and "modern" usage. > > For example, reports, mailing labels, "Dear John" letters... I mean, as a > programmer, I can use MCU - that works great, MCL - not as useful, but, > still works as documented. MCT? It's embarrassing. Dr. Mark Jones, MD is > almost impossible to return. Mark Jones III - allows me to send a "state of > the art" letter addressed to "Mark Jones Iii". > > SEARCH is another of my pet peeves. It should be *smart enough* to figure > out, or at least provide an option to be case insensitive. Maybe it does, > and I'm not aware. But it just always seemed crazy. So, I search - string? > "MARK JONES" then "Mark Jones" then "Mark jones" then "mark jones". > > BTREES? Although some may disagree, Mark Jones and MARK JONES are the same > thing - at least in our business environment. > > I think that if we want to work in a world that doesn't shout at us all the > time, then we need to look beyond how to write a basic program > > That's my $.02 (hey, what happened to the "cent" character... it used to be > there... I know it was... oh, maybe that was on the typewriters that didn't > allow lower case) > > Laura > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mats Carlid > Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 6:23 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [U2] Upper Case Only > > One reason for why the upper case only thing started that has been mentioned > in this thread is that some early terminals didn't have lower case. > > This is indeed true but it used to be much worse than that ! > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.11/723 - Release Date: 3/15/2007 > 11:27 AM > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
