Thread:Talk:Search/Zero Width Joiner and Zero Width Non Joiner/reply (4)

Sorry for the super duper late reply (went on a wikibreak):

I don't think applying case folding to search queries will have a major effect on projects in languages that don't have case. AFAIK, none of the indic family scripts have case. Do note though that just because the project is in an indic language doesn't necessarily mean that there won't be any content in other case-sensitive languages. There can always be discussions, Help pages and Mediawiki: namespace stuff in english. So searches related to such stuff will be affected.

The decision about whether or not to apply case folding by default could be decided on the basis of how much content on a particular project seems to be in a case-sensitive language. Finding this out, will, ofcourse, require some database queries to analyze how much content is in which script on the project.

So:


 * 1) I also think applying it to both analyzers would be better
 * 2) The change should be applied on a case-by-case basis to language projects that ask for it (Although if the change is found useful on a few language projects of the indic script family, I think it can be extended to all indic scripts).
 * 3) Other stuff: This resolves the search part, but not the title part. Ideally, it shouldn't be possible to create four different pages for the same title, and, if needed, the glyph to be used in the title should be controlled by a magic word or something. Not sure where to raise this point for a proper discussion. Ideas?