borj ([info]borj) wrote in [info]suggestions,
@ 2005-07-06 23:27:00
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Case insensitive tags

Title
Case insensitive tags

Short, concise description of the idea
Make the tags case insensitive or at least make it a configurable option.

Full description of the idea
Make tags case insensitive. For example - 'Fun', 'fUn' and 'fuN' are three diferent tags now. If tags are case insensitive, these will be all the same.

An ordered list of benefits
  • Reduced number of tags
  • Simplified tag processing
  • Should prevent the miss-taging introduced by wrong case

An ordered list of problems/issues involved
  • There will be no way to distinct from two tags by case
  • Probably a more deep code change if it is implemented as a configurable option

An organized list, or a few short paragraphs detailing suggestions for implementation
  • The code should treat all tags as upper or lower case words, so the URL livejournal.com/users/user/tag/Test and livejournal.com/users/user/tag/tESt should return the same set of journal entries.
  • The other option is to make it a configurable option, somewhere in the user profile.


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[info]asciident
2005-07-07 08:37 am UTC (link)
To clarify your suggestion, this is already how the feature behaves with English tags, but you seem to be having problems in Bulgarian(?).

http://www.livejournal.com/users/asciident/tag/memes
http://www.livejournal.com/users/asciident/tag/Memes
http://www.livejournal.com/users/asciident/tag/mEmEs

All show the right set of entries...

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[info]borj
2005-07-07 09:48 am UTC (link)
Yes, it seems to be a problem when the tag is in Bulgarian. (Unicode related?!?)

http://www.livejournal.com/users/borj/tag/технологии
http://www.livejournal.com/users/borj/tag/Технологии

You can see for yourself. And there is more, in my list of tags "User's tags:" I see diferent entries. For example I have both "технологии" and "Технологии", "право" and "Право" ...

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[info]beginning
2005-07-07 11:40 am UTC (link)
I hope no one is very interested in polish and the Polish...

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[info]mart
2005-07-07 06:38 pm UTC (link)

What you're seeing here is a manifestation of a more general bug, which is that LiveJournal doesn't currently have the ability to do case conversions and comparisons on anything other than the latin alphabet. This is mostly due to the currently-used version of Perl (5.6) not supporting Unicode very well. Work on trying to resolve it in the LJ code has not happened because an upgrade to Perl 5.8 has repeatedly been promised, and that version reportedly has better Unicode support.

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[info]asciident
2006-06-22 12:12 pm UTC (link)
This suggestion has been migrated for implementation consideration.

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