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[Discuss] Capitalization

Tom Vogt tom at lemuria.org
Fri Mar 14 22:26:29 CET 2008


John P. Murphy schrieb:
> The mechanism I suggested cannot possibly be abused: you click a  
> button to turn (brian, BRIAN, or BRian) into Brian.  Clicking that  
> button again does nothing.  Furthermore, if the option is available,  
> then we *know* that anyone who has failed to do it is just being  
> stubborn/dumb instead of having made an honest mistake, and we can  
> deal with them accordingly.
>   

Yes, I already thought about using ucfirst() on every name (a PHP 
function that does what you want), but that would also make names like 
deSilva or McSomething impossible.



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