Re: [Flightgear-devel] Patch to perform airport searches case-insensitively

[Torsten D. <To...@t3...>]

Am Montag, 2. Juni 2008 schrieb Melchior FRANZ:
> * Stuart Buchanan -- Monday 02 June 2008:
> > Nevertheless, I think these are acceptable numbers for a 3 character
> > string. The user can easily perform a more specific search on receiving
> > a large number of results.
>
> As I told on IRC already, the current case-sensitive behavior wasn't
> an accident or laziness. It allowed a more precise search string with
> less hits. This seemed useful at times where airport names were
> consistently and correctly capitalized. Unfortunately, current apt.dat
> is a complete mess in this regard, so case-sensitivity turned into
> a disadvantage, and I agree that case-insensitivity is now desirable.
> (Well, fixing apt.dat would be even better, but not in our responsibility.)

Maybe a litte checkbox named "Case sensitive search" might give the user the 
freedom of choice? This adds one option without dropping the other.

Torsten