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by card_zero 604 days ago
What's the problem with lower case characters? I feel like they just excluded them by accident because the table was getting too big.
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Easy way to make sure there are no company names that differ only in case?
But that leaves open the door for "FOO[space]BAR" (one space) and "FOO[space][space]BAR" (two spaces) to be registered, so that doesn't really accomplish the goal of "company names must be unique." If case-insensitivity were really their goal, that could easily be accomplished by choosing a case-insensitive collation for their DB.
Maybe to avoid ambiguity between I and l?
Ah, I see your confusion.

It's "I", me", or "myself" depending on context. The rules can be confusing, but in most context are not ambiguous.

/jk

TRUE, FAIR POINT