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summary: Business card ID lookup API
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created: 2014-11-04 11:05:45.0
creator: markjh
description: ''
id: '10616'
key: SPEC-62
number: '62'
priority: '1'
project: '10001'
reporter: markjh
resolution: '2'
resolutiondate: 2015-12-10 15:58:26.0
status: '5'
type: '2'
updated: 2015-12-10 15:58:26.0
votes: '0'
watches: '3'
workflowId: '10716'
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actions:
- author: leonerd
  body: Discussions had IRL on 13th April suggest this feature can also be used to handle case-folding of human-typed strings; e.g. "Matthew" -> "matthew".
  created: 2015-04-13 18:10:07.0
  id: '11486'
  issue: '10616'
  type: comment
  updateauthor: leonerd
  updated: 2015-04-13 18:10:07.0
- author: leonerd
  body: Personally I like it because it lets my HS perform other kinds of "canonicalisation" by way of user-specified aliases, such that I can remap "paul" and "leonerd" to "leo", or whatever I wanted to do.
  created: 2015-04-13 18:35:37.0
  id: '11488'
  issue: '10616'
  type: comment
  updateauthor: leonerd
  updated: 2015-04-13 18:35:37.0
- author: illicitonion
  body: This will either by fixed by aliases or by 3pids. It is definitely not a feature in its own right.
  created: 2015-12-10 15:58:26.0
  id: '12463'
  issue: '10616'
  type: comment
  updateauthor: illicitonion
  updated: 2015-12-10 15:58:26.0