[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #13971: "Wordpress" being turned into CamelCase "WordPress" breaks URLs

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#13971: "Wordpress" being turned into CamelCase "WordPress" breaks URLs
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 Reporter:  tfotherby     |       Owner:       
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new  
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  3.0.1
Component:  General       |     Version:  3.0  
 Severity:  normal        |    Keywords:       
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Comment(by markjaquith):

 > There's a lot of talk around what should sit in plugin land and what
 shouldn't, and I very much feel that were not Matt behind this one, there
 could be no justification for it being part of core.

 This was run past the other leads. I brought up the argument that this
 might break a great many links. Matt said that they'd been running it on
 !WordPress.com for several years with, I believe, only one recorded
 instance of it breaking anything. That satisfied me that this reported bug
 would occur infrequently.

 However, what if, instead of a regular expression, with its speed and
 complexity concerns, we do three search/replace pairs (explicitly running
 the filter on priority 11):

 {{{" Wordpress" => "WordPress"}}} — that is, {SPACE}Wordpress to
 {SPACE}!WordPress. That should eliminate all URL/src false
 positives.[[BR]]

 {{{">Wordpress" => ">WordPress"}}} — which should get the HTML-wrapped or
 beginning-of-paragraph uses.

 {{{"“Wordpress" => "“WordPress"}}} — which should get all
 instances of WordPress at the beginning of a double quote.

 Using those three replacements should greatly decrease our false
 positives.

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