Interesting. No, this hasn't been brought up before.

I guess it's doing a string compare to decide whether or not it's the same thing. If so, I'll bet whoever coded it knew that this would happen, and they decided it was rare enough to let it slide.

Considering all the refresh problems they've had with the info screens in certain beta releases, they probably decided to leave the code alone in that area once they got the refresh bugs swatted (if it works don't fix it).