User profile page canonical URL is not case normalized

I don’t think it is … but it is kind of odd that we allow:

https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror

https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorrOr

https://meta.discourse.org/u/cOdinghorror

We should normalize the username to lowercase username and force a redirect for the various obscure mis-cased usages similar to how we normalize topic urls / category urls.

I guess the same normalization should hold for https://meta.discourse.org/g/Admins

We already perform normalization using a redirect for https://meta.discourse.org/c/Bug/1/l/unread and https://meta.discourse.org/t/incorrect-canonical-url-for-user-profile-PAGE/190847

Low priority but we should clean this up.

Changing this to Contribute > Feature though cause nothing is really broken, it is just odd and inconsistent.

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