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Background: some po translations (amongst which fr.po) translate "discussion" to an upper-cased word (in French: "Discussion"). By the way, this is wished e.g. in German, where such a noun has to be written with an upper-cased "D", but I can not see the logic behind the added "D" in French.

Anyway, this gettext-translated word is used to name the discussion pages, as $discussionlink in Render.pm is built from gettext("discussion"). In the same piece of code, a case-sensitive regexp that tests wether the page being rendered is a discussion page is case-sensitive.

On the other hand, new discussion pages are created with a name built from gettext("Discussion") (please note the upper-cased "D"). Such a new page name seems to be automagically downcased.

This leads to newly created discussion pages not being recognized as discussion pages by the $page !~ /.*\/\Q$discussionlink\E$/ regexp, so that then end with an unwanted discussion link.

A simple fix that seems to work is to make this regexp case-insensitive:

git diff IkiWiki/Render.pm
diff --git a/IkiWiki/Render.pm b/IkiWiki/Render.pm
index adae9f0..093c25b 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Render.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Render.pm
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ sub genpage ($$) {
        }
        if ($config{discussion}) {
                my $discussionlink=gettext("discussion");
-               if ($page !~ /.*\/\Q$discussionlink\E$/ &&
+               if ($page !~ /.*\/\Q$discussionlink\E$/i &&
                   (length $config{cgiurl} ||
                    exists $links{$page."/".$discussionlink})) {
                        $template->param(discussionlink => htmllink($page, $page, gettext("Discussion"), noimageinline => 1, forcesubpage => 1));

But the best way would be to avoid assuming implicitely that translators will translate "discussion" and "Discussion" the same way.

[[done]] --[[Joey]]

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