Try this out. In Recorder, try entering a record and in the taxon field, enter "horse chestnut". When you hit enter, or click out of the field, Recorder will find a direct match and so won't prompt you any further. All appears to be well until you do a report some time later and find a moth in amongst your trees. The problem is, there is a horse chestnut moth and this is what gets matched in recorder. The reason you don't get prompted is because the tree of the same name is spelt as horse-chestnut (with a hyphen). So unless the data keyer knows they have to type horse-chestnut with a hyphen, or vice versa if doing moths, then there's a real danger of entering duff data unwittingly.

I'd suggest a few of solutions to this problem:

1. Parse punctuation and spaces as equal, so that "horse chestnut" and "horse-chestnut" are interpreted as the same string and thus we get prompted to select the horse chestnut we really mean.

2. Always prompt, even though there is only one possible choice.

What do others think? Any other simpler solutions (such as adding "horse-chestnut" as a synonym of "horse chestnut"? Would that work?)

Charles