Yeah, someone with Actual Knowledge Of How These Things Work will have to weigh in on this one.
For some reason, I thought it would not be too terribly difficult to tell a computer to ignore capitalization when looking for a series of letters. Would it help if there was some sort of conversion in the databse somewhere? Like have two fields: input/display tag vs internal tag. Or does get too messy/big? Like, when populating a user's sidebar, it would go after the display tag, and when doing site-wide whatever, it would to after the internal tag.
Is it is useful to distinguish between tags, tag search, and general search? I don't think search should be capitalization-sensitive, though more input on this one might be useful. I think having advanced options is a good idea, especially once we can get someone to weigh in on how ridiculous this would be to do.
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Date: 3 Oct 2011 08:49 pm (UTC)For some reason, I thought it would not be too terribly difficult to tell a computer to ignore capitalization when looking for a series of letters. Would it help if there was some sort of conversion in the databse somewhere? Like have two fields: input/display tag vs internal tag. Or does get too messy/big? Like, when populating a user's sidebar, it would go after the display tag, and when doing site-wide whatever, it would to after the internal tag.
Is it is useful to distinguish between tags, tag search, and general search? I don't think search should be capitalization-sensitive, though more input on this one might be useful. I think having advanced options is a good idea, especially once we can get someone to weigh in on how ridiculous this would be to do.