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Daniel Friesen wrote:
The issue was on prefixes... "Test_" was showing things like "TestMan".
I noted a way to fix that on the bug's page. Append a single character to the title, and then strip it off once you have the key. Using '.' in this case.
substr( ...titleToKey($text.'.'), 0, -1 );
Because the . is appended to the title "test_" will be normalized to the db key "Test_." and then we strip off the . and end up with "Test_". It's basically a placeholder character saying "Hey, I'm sitting here representing the rest of the title... don't strip what's beside me!", then we get rid of it when done.
That feels a little icky to me. :)
What I might recommend is having a couple of steps to the normalization:
1) Normalization of partial titles
...may end with / or whitespace or otherwise not be quite 100% a valid title... for use in normalizing things to go into searches, prefix searches, etc.
2) Complete title normalization
Finish that off with right-side trims, enforce length limits, etc.
- -- brion