Reader: Topics starting with a lowercase letter should not be capitalized

[lancewillett]

Raised by @aerych

Topics like iPhone, iOS, ePaper are showing up with the first character capitalized. This looks like an API issue as the behavior is being reproduced in the iOS and Android apps where it previously wasn't.

Examples:

[lancewillett]

Confirmed, testing in Safari 8.0.8 on OS X 10.10.5.

Steps to repeat:

1. Log in to wcalypso, Reader tab
2. In left-hand sidebar, find Tags and enter "ePaper" or "iOS" into the "Follow a Tag" input field.
3. Click the plus icon or hit Enter on keyboard to add the tag.
4. Notice the tag title gets rename: "EPaper" and "IOS" with first letter capitalized.

Further note: in the display title for the tag archive (stream-header__title) the spelling is also different, not consistent with the tag title in the sidebar or the original input.

Original input: iOS
Tag sidebar title: IOS
stream-header__title: Ios

[lancewillett]

See also #1546

[blowery]

hrm. half thinking we just lowercase everything, all the time. there's no way to get this right and have it automated.

[bluefuton]

just lowercase everything, all the time. there's no way to get this right and have it automated.

+1. That's how a lot of other sites handle tags.

If we do that, do we want to make the change on the API level, or on each individual UI?

[blowery]

If we do that, do we want to make the change on the API level, or on each individual UI?

API level would be best.

[bluefuton]

Fixed in #2775.