freetags bug: small caps after edit

[Josh]

When I create an entry I insert tags. I start each tag with a capitalized letter. The entry is published with tags, that start with a capitalized letter.

However, when I click on "edit" to modify something I wrote in an entry, the tags are automatically changed to small caps and I have to change them all again before hitting "save."

I am using the latest version of the freetags plugin.

[garvinhicking]

This is actually intentional to prevent authors using upper- or lowercased tags, that would lead to duplicate tags. So the plugin tries to only apply lowercasing everywhere to have a central tagging nomenclature.

Regards,
Garvin

[Josh]

Thank you.

So far I did not have any problem with duplication.

Here http://atlanticreview.org/plugin/freetag/Germany
you will see both entries tagged "germany" and "Germany".

The side bar shows only "Germany" and does not show "germany."

It just does not look very good that some tags start with an lower case and other start with an uppercase.

I guess it would require too much work to have each tag start with an uppercase. Okay, I can get used to lowercases.

[garvinhicking]

You might be able to easily tweak this with some javascripting/PHP.

You can edit your serendipity_event_freetag.php file and search for all occurences of "strtolower". Remove those (as well as the leading "(" and trailing ")" of the function call.

Then search for ".toLowerCase()" and completely strip that.

But the easier way would be to adjust yourself to lowercase tags

Regards,
Garvin