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Since when are user names case sensitive? In most systems I know user names are not case sensitive to avoid many problems, like users forgetting the case. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Danobrega (talk • contribs) 08:54, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
Abdullah Al Osmaari Osmaari (talk) 13:08, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
mawais6120 Mawais6120 (talk) 10:02, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
mawais6120 Mawais6120 (talk) 10:02, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
For information/discussion on case sensitivity, check out wikimedia (the backbone of wikipedia): http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Case_sensitivity. rs2 22:30, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
This is wrong: "...in German there is no uppercase form for the sharp s ("ß")." The uppercase form for the sharp s is "SS". Can't find the edit button for the upper part of the article, so i can't correct it myself.
I see Wikipedia itself neglects to volunteer to smash case, for instance the articles Case sensitivity and Case Sensitivity are NOT NOT NOT the same article.
Is there an example in Wikipedia where this neglect to smash case actually helps people, apart from the significant example of perhaps measurably reducing the work of the servers that host Wikipedia?
Brion you might think I'm some kind of anti-american nazi :-)
I have noticed, that the Page Titles are case sensitive (except the first letter). But didn't find any explanation about that. While it might be completely offtopic here, does that make sense? Is there any discussion or explanation about that topic, and I only didn't find it?
Thanks, User:NilsB
I would think "case sensitivity" is correct, but as an adjective or adverb, wouldn't it be "case-sensitive" and "case-sensitively" etc.? — FREAK OF NURxTURE (TALK) 04:59, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
This may be not be the correct place to ask for this, but I needed to do a case sensitive web search and came up with.. nothing.
As good as Google otherwise is, it lacks this feature. Alta Vista supposedly had this, but doesn't anymore. Any suggestions? Anything on this on Wikipedia? Having just looked at this article tonight (i.e. December 8 2009), I was extremely surprised to see that this article did not mention Google as a search engine which, as far as I know, is NOT case-sensitive, so that you will get equivalent number of hits on Google if type in a term in capitals or lower-case. This has long been my understanding on Google - am I right? ACEOREVIVED (talk) 22:14, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
See CaseSensitiveSearch.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.236.232.133 (talk) 02:55, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
Can anyone hazard a guess at why this article has been the target of so much vandalism over the last day or 2? -- Smjg (talk) 22:17, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
Under the list of examples of case sensitive data, I am confused as why web site addresses are listed. Domain names are not case sensitive, but I believe depending on the web hosting software, the page name may be. example.com is the same as EXAMPLE.COM, but example.com/index.html may not necessarily be the same as example.com/INDEX.HTML
I think web site url's should be removed here as it could lead to confusion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Goodmorning2255 (talk • contribs) 03:48, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
Or I cannot understand what "case sensitive is"
In QBASIC IDE, you can type
X=10
print x
And then you press Enter on last line, all instances of X converted to last used casing (x). (and running it prints 10)
If you create such a program outside IDE, it converts on load.
(As example of case sensitive Basics I can cite Liberty Basic / Just Basic. In them, above program stays "as is" and then run, prints 0 (because x is undefined) ) 212.92.128.7 (talk) 06:24, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
In one Star Trek: Voyager novels, one of the characters meets a female Q and asks her if she is Q. "No, I'm q", she replies, "can't you hear the lower case?" How are you supposed to hear the lower case? JIP | Talk 22:01, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
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Change the section title: With computer systems of gov of india into: Use in computer systems Reason: Obviously India has nothing to do with this topic, there is no mention of India anywhere else other than in this title. Abuyakl (talk) 19:21, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
"Current Windows file systems, like NTFS, are case-sensitive; that is a readme.txt and a Readme.txt can exist in the same directory. Windows disallows the user to create a second file differing only in case due to compatibility issues with older software not designed for such operation." Not just older software. One would struggle to find any newer software that is compatible with it either. 77.73.168.99 (talk) 16:28, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
In computers, some examples of usually case-sensitive data are
[...]
*filenames
[...]
Imho this is wrong: most computers use Windows and although it is possible, to use upper- and lower-case filenames in Windows with NTFS or VFAT, the file names are not case sensitive: it is impossible to create two files in the same folder, when the only difference in the filename is the case of a letter and all the file system operations are also case insensitive. --MrBurns (talk) 00:03, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
When is either one of these approaches used? Many articles list use cases of the ways how they are stored. But what is the actual philosophy behind case sensitivity vs. insensitivity? Usually my mind is blank when I try to find something from the command line in Unix: I don't remember the file names I try to search (a big NAS for example). That's why I use case insensitive searches. Most of the commands and defaults are usually case sensitive in Unix, however. I just wonder why that is the case (no pun). Then I know a programmer often needs case sensitive searches (definitions in upper case in SQL, C, Java etc.).
Storing vs. searching, computer vs. human, content vs. filenames, different applications and use cases. Why Unix favors case sensitivity while "popular" systems favor insensitivity? Still not completely clear to me and "case sensitivity for exact matches" is a tautology as that may not always be the case either: sometimes things are stored as containers (not files) and user selects its name (it can be the same, i.e. Google Drive style). The more user side a system tends to be the more case insensitivity there usually is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Beoldhin (talk • contribs) 10:18, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
It seems to me that "case sensitivity" is used to mean two things:
Most of the article is about the second meaning - but the lead defines only the first. I will change it to define "case sensitivity" in the second meaning, alongside "case sensitive" and "case insensitive". NisJørgensen (talk) 22:13, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
@Guy Harris: The issue is explained at WP:INTDABLINK and WP:HOWTODAB. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:49, 3 May 2020 (UTC)