Jim Allan <jallan at smrtytrek dot com> wrote: > A shocking number of corporate data-bases in Canada, certainly the > majority, continue to maintain customer/subscriber/policy > holder/cardholder data only in uppercase and without diacritics.
It's not just the private sector, either. Canada Post offers a lookup program that returns the name of the city or town associated with a given postal code, but the data doesn't include accented characters on French names. Their online Addressing Guide has a policy of "recognizing and accepting the use of upper and lower case characters, including accents..." but apparently their canonical representation of city names is accent-free. (I turned down a commercial database of Canadian postal codes some years ago for the same reason.) BTW, if anyone does know where I can find a list of Canadian cities and towns, with accents intact, for free or nearly free, please reply off-line. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
