[GH-ISSUE #601] Update MD051/link-fragments to support ADO wiki anchors #2321

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Originally created by @jason-ha on GitHub (Oct 6, 2022).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/DavidAnson/markdownlint/issues/601

Azure DevOps preserves capitalization to form anchor names. In VS Code you can Ctrl+click to successfully jump to that part of document, but markdownlint complains about invalid link fragment.

Example:

# Title

...
See also [alternate topic](#Alternate-topic).
...

## Alternate topic

...

Originally created by @jason-ha on GitHub (Oct 6, 2022). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/DavidAnson/markdownlint/issues/601 Azure DevOps preserves capitalization to form anchor names. In VS Code you can Ctrl+click to successfully jump to that part of document, but markdownlint complains about invalid link fragment. Example: ``` # Title ... See also [alternate topic](#Alternate-topic). ... ## Alternate topic ... ```

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@nschonni commented on GitHub (Oct 6, 2022):

The complaint is about the capitalization of the anchor, not the dashes. It should be happy with #alternate-topic

@nschonni commented on GitHub (Oct 6, 2022): The complaint is about the capitalization of the anchor, not the dashes. It should be happy with `#alternate-topic`

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@DavidAnson commented on GitHub (Oct 18, 2022):

Closing in favor of #605. Current behavior is to enforce "lower-case" because that's what GitHub produces.

@DavidAnson commented on GitHub (Oct 18, 2022): Closing in favor of #605. Current behavior is to enforce "lower-case" because that's what GitHub produces.