Good grief...
Sep. 5th, 2010 07:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ffuturesPhoto file names at Wikimedia Commons are case sensitive. I accidentally saved one with the extension .JPG instead of .jpg and it has to be capitalised in anything that links to it!
Yes, I know this is true of web sites generally, but you have to use their site to upload, WHY don't they force lower case for the file extension?
Yes, I know this is true of web sites generally, but you have to use their site to upload, WHY don't they force lower case for the file extension?
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Date: 2010-09-05 07:10 pm (UTC)It's a Windows/posix thing really, posix systems (eg, Linux and I think MacOs) have case-sensitive filesystem , whereas Windows is case-insensitive (but case preserving). Since you don't know what case somebody has written the links in you cant be sure that squishing the case is the right thing.
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Date: 2010-09-05 08:44 pm (UTC)What I'm talking about is AFTER it's uploaded, when Wikimedia prompts you for a file name, and goes with whatever you type in, whether it's upper or lower case or (presumably) a mix of both.
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Date: 2010-09-05 08:52 pm (UTC)Except that on the other hand it should possibly force the case to that of a file that exists (rather than upper/lower) in that particular instance.
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Date: 2010-09-06 05:04 pm (UTC)Lower/uppercasing text correctly is pretty damn hard. (http://zwitserloot.com/2010/08/04/case-insensitive-comparison-a-lot-more-complicated-than-you-might-think/)
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Date: 2010-09-06 02:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-06 06:34 am (UTC)