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Inserting a link forces the first character to be capitalised, which doesn't work for case-sensitive interwiki links
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Steps to reproduce:

  • Create an interwiki link using a target like, "en:Lemur"
  • It's not necessary to save the article at this point, the bug occurs either way.
  • Open Visual Editor a second time and edit the same link again.

Notice that the link target is red now. It is "En:Lemur", which doesn't correctly trigger interwiki interpretation.

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Jdforrester-WMF renamed this task from Interwiki link is generated as uppercase, not idempotent to Inserting a link forces the first character to be capitalised, which doesn't work for case-sensitive interwiki links.Feb 2 2016, 8:27 PM
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En:Lemur works fine as far as I can tell. You might have run into T133535.

This task and T116619 is about the same issue.

Change 344375 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester; owner: Esanders):
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Use original title or normalized title when inserting link text

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/344375

Change 344375 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Use original title or normalized title when inserting link text

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/344375

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