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What's the problem with lower case characters? I feel like they just excluded them by accident because the table was getting too big.


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


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