Bug 189161 - Searching for lowercase delta finds capital delta
Summary: Searching for lowercase delta finds capital delta
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Text (show other bugs)
Version: Other
Hardware: Unspecified Unspecified
: P2 Normal
Assignee: Nobody
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Keywords: InRadar
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Reported: 2018-08-30 11:04 PDT by Myles C. Maxfield
Modified: 2018-09-07 23:34 PDT (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Myles C. Maxfield 2018-08-30 11:04:24 PDT
1. Open https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan/specs/1.1/html/vkspec.html#_texel_input_operations
2. ⌘F
3. Search for U+03B4 δ

Expected: U+0394 Δ is not found
Actual: U+0394 Δ is found
Comment 1 Radar WebKit Bug Importer 2018-08-30 23:28:26 PDT
<rdar://problem/43925547>
Comment 2 Alexey Proskuryakov 2018-08-31 09:42:39 PDT
> Expected: U+0394 Δ is not found

That's not intuitively correct. Why is that the expectation?
Comment 3 Myles C. Maxfield 2018-09-04 17:02:19 PDT
(In reply to Alexey Proskuryakov from comment #2)
> > Expected: U+0394 Δ is not found
> 
> That's not intuitively correct. Why is that the expectation?

These characters are used as variables in math formulas. They represent distinct variables.
Comment 4 Alexey Proskuryakov 2018-09-04 17:09:53 PDT
How will we distinguish that case from when they are used in genuine Greek text?
Comment 5 Myles C. Maxfield 2018-09-04 17:41:37 PDT
(In reply to Alexey Proskuryakov from comment #4)
> How will we distinguish that case from when they are used in genuine Greek
> text?

No idea. It's still a bug, though.
Comment 6 Alexey Proskuryakov 2018-09-05 09:20:10 PDT
I don't see anything actionable here. All letters have different meanings in math depending on case, so it doesn't makes sense to nitpick on delta.

Consider "o(N)" and "O(N)" - would that be a reason to claim that case insensitive search for "o" shouldn't match "O"? Delta is no different.