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Bug 39017 - IPv6 addresses should use lowercase hexadecimal digits
IPv6 addresses should use lowercase hexadecimal digits
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
1.20.x
All All
: Low minor (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
: ipv6
Depends on: 44161
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Reported: 2012-08-03 18:03 UTC by CodeCat
Modified: 2014-08-06 10:55 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description CodeCat 2012-08-03 18:03:38 UTC 
Currently on en.Wiktionary (1.20wmf8) IPv6 addresses are displayed with uppercase hexadecimal digits. For example 2001:0DB8:85A3::8A2E:0370:7334. According to rfc5952, when an IPv6 address is rendered as text it should be in the shortest possible form and use lowercase only.
Comment 1 Jasper Deng 2012-08-03 18:05:49 UTC 
We probably can't use the abbreviated version; it's a little late to suggest lower case because some IPv6 addresses are already tagged on their userpages (which are in caps; changing the case will not automatically correct the case of those IP userpages).
Comment 2 Jarry1250 2012-09-15 17:36:39 UTC 
"It's too late" --> but it's only going to get worse, especially if other sites start using lowercase and we look weirder and weirder. Moving pages is trivial, IMHO we should change over ASAP if it's going to be a future issue.
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