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 Author: legojos View Messages Posted By legojos
 Posted: Dec 4, 2023 04:29
 Subject: no difference upper and lowercase in nick?
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 Topic: Technical Issues
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legojos (47)

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It looks like it makes no difference if you use upper- or lowercase characters
in your nickname or not: you can still log in. Shouldn't a nickname be case
sensitive?
 Author: hpoort View Messages Posted By hpoort
 Posted: Dec 4, 2023 06:19
 Subject: Re: no difference upper and lowercase in nick?
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In Technical Issues, legojos writes:
  It looks like it makes no difference if you use upper- or lowercase characters
in your nickname or not: you can still log in. Shouldn't a nickname be case
sensitive?

It is very common for login names to be case insensitive and hence very uncommon
to be case sensitive. It is only passwords that are (nearly) always case sensitive.

The same goes for e-mail addresses and the base part of url (websites): they
are case insensitive by definition.
 Author: yorbrick View Messages Posted By yorbrick
 Posted: Dec 4, 2023 06:57
 Subject: Re: no difference upper and lowercase in nick?
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In Technical Issues, legojos writes:
  It looks like it makes no difference if you use upper- or lowercase characters
in your nickname or not: you can still log in. Shouldn't a nickname be case
sensitive?

No.

If they are treated as different usernames, then someone could have the name
Legojos and another person LEGOjos and another LEGOJOS and they would all be
different users to you. That just leads to confusion.