On Tuesday 19 August 2008 22:05, Dave Chapman wrote:
> 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.
I haven't contributed to this thread so far, but having just returned from a
week's holiday I do so now, in favour of sentence case for British English.
> 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 adopt US-English
> conventions for a British-English language file.
Enthusiastically agreed. If it's a British English language file, it should
follow British English conventions. If it follows American conventions for
whatever reason, then please call it American, not British.
> If we want Rockbox to be the same as other applications, let's ship it with
> a US-English language file by default.
And preferably have a British-English language file as a selectable option.
Antony.
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