[pmwiki-users] Case insensivity on Windows platform

Roman romat2 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 23 11:10:47 CST 2007


On 1/23/07, Roman <romat2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> One of my wikies is running on Windows platform. I thought that PmWiki
> is case insensitive on this platform (according to what I've found in
> mailing list archive: "Actually, just a note that PmWiki is
> case-sensitive only on systems that have case-sensitive filenames. On
> Windows and Macintosh OS/X systems, PmWiki tends to act
> case-insensitively, and both Group1.Sidebar and Group1.SideBar point
> to the same page.")
>
> But I came across two confusing situations where PmWiki is NOT case
> insensitive.
>
> 1. Let's say somebody created page called Pmwiki.SomePage (i.e. with
> lowercase "w"). When I do a search (with default fmt=bygroup) "PmWiki"
> and "Pmwiki" are grouped separately
>
> 2. Let's say I have two pages with link to PmWiki.Somepage but one
> link is typed as Pmwiki.Somepage. Both links work but when I use
> pagelist with link=PmWiki.SomePage then only one page is listed.
>
> So my question is: Is PmWiki written intentionally as case insensitive
> or case sensitivity works only by chance thanks to filesystem, and
> some PmWiki functions don't support it?
>
> Roman
>

Oops, correction to my question:

Is PmWiki written intentionally as case insensitive
or case INsensitivity works only by chance thanks to filesystem, and
some PmWiki functions don't support it?




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