Greetings,
Several people over the last 12+ years have asked -- and not been given an
answer -- why usernames' first character are forced to upper-case. I now
have the same question. The discussion stems from this talk pages:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual_talk:$wgCapitalLinks and
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual_talk:$wgCapitalLinkOverrides
To me, this looks like an obsolete, legacy requirement from long before the
time $wgCapitalLinks was introduced.
The relevant code is found in includes/user/User.php:
public static function getCanonicalName( $name, $validate = 'valid'
) {
// Force usernames to capital
global $wgContLang;
$name = $wgContLang->ucfirst( $name );
isValidUserName also checks this condition. But no where do I see *why*.
Proposal:
It seems to me that either $wgCapitalLinks should apply here, or (for
backward compatibility), a new option ( $wgCapitalNames ) should be created
to allow the site-admin to disable the forcing of ucfirst of usernames.
--
Otheus
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