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class=994570608-28042011>Hi,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=994570608-28042011>Validation is nowadays needed in quite a many places in
a mapfile. However, we who live outside the English speaking world tend to
have more characters in the alphabet than A to Z. This makes the
mapfile validation idea only half effective because for making things to work at
all with the native data we must accept almost everything that is
non-numeric with wildcards. Are there others who think that this is a
problem?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
class=994570608-28042011>Stephen Woodbidge commented slightly this topic in
another thead a month ago (Mar 29, 2011)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=994570608-28042011><A
href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-users/2011-March/068307.html">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-users/2011-March/068307.html</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=994570608-28042011>-Jukka
Rahkonen-</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>