[mythtv-users] 0.22 upgrade makes people searches case-sensitive
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sat Nov 21 04:56:29 UTC 2009
On 11/20/2009 11:23 PM, f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:33:01 -0500
> > From: "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>
>
> > On 11/20/2009 09:53 PM, f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:
> > > Is there some easy way for users to figure out which elements of
> > > Myth's UI are case-sensitive, and which aren't? For example, are
> > > -all- other 0.22 DB columns case-sensitive? (Then there's the
> > > issue of command-line options, of course.)
>
> > See the changeset I linked which lists all of them.
>
> ...so to be clearer: Are there any places where a user might sensibly
> type in a random-case string (e.g., in a power search or the like)
> where case-sensitivity might cause a match failure, and are those
> places (if any) documented somewhere that users are likely to find
> them?
Not really.
> Nobody's going to just randomly find that changeset.
>
> (Looking at that changeset doesn't immediately make me think that
> case-sensitivity is going to be a problem, but I probably wouldn't
> notice it from a cursory scan.)
Yeah, it only really has a direct effect on the user for keyword and
people searches.
Mike
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