Hi Malcolm According to my wife who is Russian,
The First letter of a sentence is a Capital Letter. The First Letter of a sentence in Quotes is a Capital Letter People's Names are Capitalised. Country names and City names are Capitalised. E.g. England, Russia, Nottingham, New York. Abbreviations, Synonyms are Capitalised throughout. CNN, BBC etc. One difference between English and Russian, in English we refer to everyone as "you" in Russia they distinguish between you (my husband) and You (my boss). Not sure but she thinks that dignitaries' titles would be Capitalised, probably the President and the Prime Minister, but has come across news items where the prime minister is in lower case. Will let you know if she comes up with anything else. I had a thought on how I would do it. If possible I would obtain a spelling dictionary for the language concerned and compare the words with the documentation I wanted to correct. How about finding web pages in the languages you are interested in and getting them translated(Google) and try to come up with a pattern from that, I would have thought that a good translator would keep the Capitalisation if not the grammer, anyway you could look to see what words start with a Capital letter and see what they translate to. Cheers Peter, Peter Hart Computers. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Malcolm Greene Sent: 04 August 2010 19:31 To: [email protected] Subject: [NF] Propercasing non-English text Looking for feedback from my non-English comrades. I may have some western European, Russian, Japanese content that may need to be proper-cased on reports. Does the concept of propercasing apply to your language(s)? If so, can your language be propercased mechanically (algorthimically) or are there too many exceptions or does the concept of propercase not apply to your language at all? Am I even using the correct term (propercasing) or are there more accurate terms for your language? Thank you, Malcolm --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/a57fa4cf19531343a2ee11b57db8e3af100...@server.peterhartcomputers.local ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
