Marc Guay wrote:
My eyes are drawn straight away to the words "playback" and "radio": these
look out of place here (sloppy, even) without capitalisation. I don't think
Rockbox should differ from the vast majority of English software (UK, US or
otherwise) in this respect.
I think it goes without saying that dialogs should be using sentence case.
+1 for both of these points.
Marc
(If it matters I'm a native Canadian English speaker which is pretty
close to the Queen's version)
I'm not sure what else can be said in this thread, apart from
re-iterating the argument that in general use, title case is little-used
in the UK, and to my eyes (and to the eyes of the majority of the
British contributors to this thread) it looks bad.
The fact that other languages do not use title case in computer
applications demonstrates that it's a cultural choice, and that
applications follow the conventions used in the non-computing world
where that language is used. Rockbox shouldn't adapt US-English
conventions for a British-English language file. If we want Rockbox to
be the same as other applications, let's ship it with a US-English
language file by default.
But if the conclusion is going to be to keep title case in some parts of
the Rockbox British-English file, then someone needs to document the
rules - both the precise variation on title case that Rockbox should
use, and which strings should or should not use title case.
At least sentence case is straightforward...
Dave.
