diff --git a/examples/case_insensitive.hpp b/examples/case_insensitive.hpp
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+
+// Copyright 2006 Daniel James.
+// Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying
+// file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
+
+// This file implements a locale aware case insenstive equality predicate and
+// hash function. Unfortunately it still falls short of full
+// internationalization as it only deals with a single character at a time
+// (some languages have tricky cases where the characters in an upper case
+// string don't have a one-to-one correspondence with the lower case version of
+// the text, eg. )
+
+#if !defined(BOOST_HASH_EXAMPLES_CASE_INSENSITIVE_HEADER)
+#define BOOST_HASH_EXAMPLES_CASE_INSENSITIVE_HEADER
+
+#include <boost/algorithm/string/predicate.hpp>
+#include <boost/functional/hash.hpp>
+
+namespace hash_examples
+{
+    struct iequal_to
+        : std::binary_function<std::string, std::string, bool>
+    {
+        iequal_to() {}
+        explicit iequal_to(std::locale const& l) : locale_(l) {}
+
+        template <typename String1, typename String2>
+        bool operator()(String1 const& x1, String2 const& x2) const
+        {
+            return boost::algorithm::iequals(x1, x2);
+        }
+    private:
+        std::locale locale_;
+    };
+
+    struct ihash
+        : std::unary_function<std::string, bool>
+    {
+        ihash() {}
+        explicit ihash(std::locale const& l) : locale_(l) {}
+
+        template <typename String>
+        bool operator()(String const& x) const
+        {
+            std::size_t seed = 0;
+
+            for(typename String::const_iterator it = x.begin();
+                it != x.end(); ++it)
+            {
+                boost::hash_combine(seed, std::toupper(*it, locale_));
+            }
+
+            return seed;
+        }
+    private:
+        std::locale locale_;
+    };
+}
+
+#endif
diff --git a/examples/case_insensitive_test.cpp b/examples/case_insensitive_test.cpp
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+
+// Copyright 2006 Daniel James.
+// Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying
+// file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
+
+#include "./case_insensitive.hpp"
+#include <boost/detail/lightweight_test.hpp>
+#include <boost/unordered_map.hpp>
+
+struct word_info {
+    int tag;
+    explicit word_info(int t = 0) : tag(t) {}
+};
+
+void test1() {
+    boost::unordered_map<std::string, word_info,
+        hash_examples::ihash, hash_examples::iequal_to> idictionary;
+
+    BOOST_TEST(idictionary.empty());
+
+    idictionary["one"] = word_info(1);
+    BOOST_TEST(idictionary.size() == 1);
+    BOOST_TEST(idictionary.find("ONE") != idictionary.end() &&
+        idictionary.find("ONE") == idictionary.find("one"));
+
+    idictionary.insert(std::make_pair("ONE", word_info(2)));
+    BOOST_TEST(idictionary.size() == 1);
+    BOOST_TEST(idictionary.find("ONE") != idictionary.end() &&
+            idictionary.find("ONE")->first == "one" &&
+            idictionary.find("ONE")->second.tag == 1);
+
+    idictionary["One"] = word_info(3);
+    BOOST_TEST(idictionary.size() == 1);
+    BOOST_TEST(idictionary.find("ONE") != idictionary.end() &&
+            idictionary.find("ONE")->first == "one" &&
+            idictionary.find("ONE")->second.tag == 3);
+
+    idictionary["two"] = word_info(4);
+    BOOST_TEST(idictionary.size() == 2);
+    BOOST_TEST(idictionary.find("two") != idictionary.end() &&
+            idictionary.find("TWO")->first == "two" &&
+            idictionary.find("Two")->second.tag == 4);
+
+
+}
+
+void test2() {
+    boost::unordered_map<std::wstring, word_info,
+        hash_examples::ihash, hash_examples::iequal_to> idictionary;
+
+    BOOST_TEST(idictionary.empty());
+
+    idictionary[L"one"] = word_info(1);
+    BOOST_TEST(idictionary.size() == 1);
+    BOOST_TEST(idictionary.find(L"ONE") != idictionary.end() &&
+        idictionary.find(L"ONE") == idictionary.find(L"one"));
+
+    idictionary.insert(std::make_pair(L"ONE", word_info(2)));
+    BOOST_TEST(idictionary.size() == 1);
+    BOOST_TEST(idictionary.find(L"ONE") != idictionary.end() &&
+            idictionary.find(L"ONE")->first == L"one" &&
+            idictionary.find(L"ONE")->second.tag == 1);
+
+    idictionary[L"One"] = word_info(3);
+    BOOST_TEST(idictionary.size() == 1);
+    BOOST_TEST(idictionary.find(L"ONE") != idictionary.end() &&
+            idictionary.find(L"ONE")->first == L"one" &&
+            idictionary.find(L"ONE")->second.tag == 3);
+
+    idictionary[L"two"] = word_info(4);
+    BOOST_TEST(idictionary.size() == 2);
+    BOOST_TEST(idictionary.find(L"two") != idictionary.end() &&
+            idictionary.find(L"TWO")->first == L"two" &&
+            idictionary.find(L"Two")->second.tag == 4);
+}
+
+int main() {
+    test1();
+    test2();
+
+    return boost::report_errors();
+}