Titles are case sensitive. It's just that in the laundering process, the first letter is capitalized.
Also, the search box searches case insensitively.
On 4/26/05, John Blumel johnblumel@earthlink.net wrote:
MediaWiki v1.4.0, MySQL v4.0.21...
I have NO entry in my cur table with cur_title="De Ossibus".
I do have a cur table entry with cur_title="De ossibus"
Yet, entering "De Ossibus" in the search box and clicking Go takes me to "De ossibus"
A little experimenting shows that, if I create a page with the title "The new york times", entering "The New York Times" in the search box and clicking Go will take me there. But, if I make any of the letters besides the first upper case, such as "The new York times", then I have to match the title exactly by case to get to the page.
I thought the titles were supposed to be completely case sensitive, but it seems as though they are sometimes but not others.
Is this supposed to be the normal behavior? If so, is there a reason why it works this way? If not, is this a known issue or has anyone else experienced this behavior?
John Blumel
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