A search string for searching data distributed among various hosts employing different character encoding schemes or having different case-mapping capabilities is entered in a multi-field text string class. The multi-field text string class includes methods for transliterating characters within the original...http://www.google.fr/patents/US6421680?utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrevet US6421680 - Method, system and computer program product for case and character-encoding insensitive searching of international databases
Method, system and computer program product for case and character-encoding ...
