[katello-devel] Case sensitive behavior in katello

[Miroslav Suchy]

On 9.8.2012 18:08, Eric Sammons wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> On 9.8.2012 17:48, Eric Sammons wrote:
>>> During a call today some questions about case sensitive behavior
>>> for users, environments, and I'm sure applicable to other areas,
>>> came up.  The short, should Name == name == NaMe == NAME?
>>>
>>> The issue here is, especially with usernames, orgs, and
>>> environments, username should equal USERNAME likewise a dev
>>> environment should be the same as a DEV environment (within a org
>>> Dev is not going to be different from DEV and JOHNDOE won't be a
>>> different user from JohnDoe).  Does everyone agree? Keep in mind
>>> this would likely apply to organizational names as well.
>>
>> Do we support UTF-8 characters in some of those NAMEs?
>>
>> Mirek
>>
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> I should have mentioned that the issue today is that katello treats these values as unique; i.e. under ACME_Corporation I can have Library->DEV->dev.  I am under the impression that this should not be permitted.
>
> --Eric

While I was trying to point that ruby does not handle UTF well:

a='exámple'
a.upcase
=> "EXáMPLE"

And I personally do not see Library->DEV->dev as problem. I can even 
imagine, that somebody may want this.

Mirek