https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149973

Michael Warner <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX

--- Comment #2 from Michael Warner <[email protected]> ---
Different languages have different capitalization rules. To apply sentence case
in a way that works for all languages, LibreOffice leverages the ICU library
and CLDR data published by the Unicode organization. 

Technically, we could override the ICU library for certain language-specific
special-cases, but this would just open up a whole can of worms. It would never
be correct, not even for English, because even if it capitalizes the pronoun
'I' it still wouldn't know which nouns to capitalize (like 'Unicode',
'English', or 'LibreOffice') and which ones not to (like 'library'). 

Even special-casing English to always capitalize 'I' wouldn't be correct. What
if someone was using letters to refer to another section of a book, for
example? Consider the following sentence:
    For more information, refer to footnotes i and j.

It may be that only AI could do this correctly; which would be an interesting
project, but unlikely to happen in LibreOffice any time soon. 

IMHO, this should be resolved wontfix.

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