[pmwiki-users] Case insensivity on Windows platform

Roman romat2 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 23 11:06:00 CST 2007


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




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