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Is there some deep technical reason why all the standard C library functions in the reference manual are spelt incorrectly? Each one should start with a lower case letter. [unsigned comment by rjh on 12:07 14 March 2006 GMT]

In short, yes. In more detail: the wiki engine capitalises the starting letter of an article's title (and namespace) automatically and stores it in the database that way. It accepts links and urls that are lowercase, but in the former case the engine will translate the pointed-to url so that the title is uppercase-first (leaving the link's displayed text lowercase); in the latter the browser will get a redirect to the corresponding article with title uppercase-first. I haven't thoroughly investigated a technical solution; I have noticed though that on Wikipedia they deal with it by explaining at the top of relevant articles that the title should be lowercase-first and why it's not. To start with I've created a template - Template:Functionfirstlowercase - that can be inserted top-of-page (using: {{template:functionfirstlowercase}} - as implied by the above explanation, the 't' in template or 'f' in function could equally be capitalised): Template:functionfirstlowercase. We may be able to find a technical solution. --Netocrat 13:56, 14 March 2006 (GMT)

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