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Off topic comment on my part here but, I’ve never noticed before that GitHub down-cases the display text of the project link at the top. I noticed it now because it’s a YouTube video also linked in the readme, and YouTube video links (and many, perhaps even most, other links) are case sensitive.

Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrwXZXGiP1w

In the top on mobile GitHub renders the text for the link instead as

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrwxzxgip1w

What an utterly weird design choice on the part of GitHub :S




No such problem in a browser. Perhaps the weird choice is creating, or using, an app for a web site in the first place.


I don't think that is true. If you run the Nginx web server on Linux for example, with a case sensitive file system, I'm pretty sure that the files you serve will also by default have case sensitive URLs. And probably it'd be the same with Apache on Linux with a case sensitive file system.


What? Case-sensitivity is the presumed default everywhere. I said there is no such problem in a browser, meaning, the url is displayed correctly, not converted to lower case, meaning, the problem is only in the app, and I'm suggesting: "Who needs a phone app for this anyway?"


Ah. I thought you meant that YouTube URLs was the problem. Your comment was pretty vague since both GitHub and YouTube are apps in the browser




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