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Q&A Should we allow capitalized tags?

I think tags should be case-preserving and also case-independent. By this I mean: I do not want us to have two tags that differ only in capitalization, because I think that will lead to errors and...

posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Monica Cellio‭ · 2020-08-23T20:34:31Z (over 4 years ago)
I think tags should be case-*preserving* and also case-*independent*.  By this I mean: I do not want us to have two tags that differ only in capitalization, because I think that will lead to errors and confusion.  (If you need tags for "apple" the fruit and "Apple" the company on the same site, find some other way to distinguish them.)  If there's a technical benefit to pushing them all to lowercase in the database that's fine.  But it should be permissible to capitalize proper names for presentation.

As a user I would find it a little puzzling for tags to allow other character sets (like Hebrew or Kanji) but *not* allow capital letters in the Roman alphabet.  And we do currently allow other character sets.