tagged journal entries artefact is case sensitive

[shanen]

Mahara 15.04
Sorry I didn't pick up on this during testing, but the tags chosen in the tagged journal entries artefact are case sensitive.
So for example if over time I use the following tags to tag my journals "PDR", "Pdr" and "pdr".

And then I add a block of tagged journal artefact and choose "pdr" none of the "PDR" or "Pdr" entries show up.

I suppose my question is, is there any reason why tags are case sensitive? I would seem it creates more work and is not intuitive. I know I "should" be choosing "PDR" every time, but the only time someone finds out they "should" have is when it's too late...
Unless there is a good use case I would suggest case insensitive tags is the way to go.

Cheers,
Shane.

[Robert Lyon (robertl-9)]

A case where case sensitive may be useful is when a proper noun is different to the common noun,

eg: Smith (A person's last name) vs smith (a person who works with metal)
       Hope (A person's first name) vs hope (a feeling)

but saying that it might be worth having a setting on the tagged journals entries block to pick case insensitivity (and even have it 'on' by default.

[shanen (shane-nuessler-canberra)]

I like that idea, very good out of the box thinking Rob.
Can't think of any downsides...

[Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner)]

Do we really need another setting that people don't use? Aren't most people used to "just typing in Google" no matter whether with a capital letter or not? I think it would be good if the search were case insensitive and thus showed both results (Hope and hope) and then the author can decide which one it is as it is their own tags and not somebody else's tags. We don't use semantic tagging in Mahara and thus anything is a bit arbitrary in my opinion. Adding another setting just adds more clicks that may not really be necessary.

[Aaron Wells (u-aaronw)]

I agree with Kristina, the solution to this problem is to make the search case-insensitive.