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+/*
+ * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
+ *
+ * License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1 or later.
+ * See the lgpl.txt file in the root directory or <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html>.
+ */
+package org.hibernate.test.mapping;
+
+import java.util.Locale;
+
+import org.hibernate.dialect.Dialect;
+import org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQL94Dialect;
+import org.hibernate.mapping.Column;
+
+import org.hibernate.testing.TestForIssue;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+
+/**
+ * Aliases should always be lower-case. This tests that an alias for
+ * a column name that ends in a character that is not a letter gets
+ * generated to be all in lower-case.
+ *
+ * @author Gail Badner
+ */
+public class ColumnLastIndexNotLetterAliasTest {
+	// Arbitrarily choose PostgreSQL
+	private static final Dialect DIALECT = new PostgreSQL94Dialect();;
+
+	@Test
+	@TestForIssue(jiraKey = "HHH-14720")
+	public void testColumnNameEndinWithNonCharacter() {
+		test( "aColumn1" );
+		test( "aColumn_" );
+		test( "aVeryVeryVeryLongColumnName1" );
+		test( "aVeryVeryVeryLongColumnName_" );
+	}
+
+	private void test(String columnName) {
+		final Column column = new Column( columnName );
+		final String alias = column.getAlias( DIALECT );
+		assertEquals( alias.toLowerCase( Locale.ROOT ), alias );
+	}
+}