>>Not the keyboard drivers, but the collate sequence. When a sequence other than machine is in effect, string comparisons comply with the rules set in the sequence. I've seen some really unexpected results in such cases - it may affect your seek()s and whatnot.
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>Well now I've seen those too :)
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>Thank you very much!
You may want to try the "==" operator for exact comparisons. I am not sure, though, whether it has the same ... "feature", in the case of different collation sequences.
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