[pmwiki-users] Sidebars per Group

[Thomas -Balu- Walter]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 09:40:42AM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > Is it otherwise problematic to simply store pages in lowercase all the
> > time?
> 
> Yes, because then the only way to recover the original mixed-case
> title is to actually open and read the file itself.  That turns
> a simple "read the directory listing" into "read every file in
> the directory".  (Example:  If the file on disk is 
> "PmWiki.DocumentationIndex", then I already know the title
> and can turn it into a spaced title w/o any difficulty.  But
> if the file is "pmwiki.documentationindex", then we actually
> have to read the file or have another index somewhere in order
> to find out the true name and spacing.

Ok, I thought the pages usually have to be read anyway on most
occasions - e.g. to check for a (:title:) or similar.

> There's more to it than this -- any fix for case sensitivity also
> needs to fix the problem of non-ascii characters in filenames.
> And I think we ought to allow spaces in pagenames as well.

ieek ;)

     Ba-don't forget the uppercase-workers-union!-lu