[dev] Fwd: [Bug 1101] Changed - Case sensitivity issue with categories

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Eric Rostetter <eric.rostetter@physics.utexas.edu>:

> So, if you did fix this, it would fix some problems.  But if you don't
> fix it, that's cool tool.  But why fix it in the code, when I could -- if 
> I wasn't so lazy -- just fix it with the existing hooks (just write a hook
> that converts all logins to lowercase, for example)?  Am I missing
> something, or isn't this a job for the hooks?

I think so. I'm strongly opposed to putting in any other code; it would have
to be conditional, because for sites that _are_ case sensitive, anything
unconditional would break things. And for conditional logic, there are
already hooks.

-chuck

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