[issue31873] Inconsistent capitalization of proper noun - Unicode.

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset ed8860c5af87d78d312ae30dd2d6bedc60bd86e5 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7': bpo-31873: Update unicode.rst - 'unicode' capitalization (GH-4125) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ed8860c5af87d78d312ae30dd2d6bedc60bd86e5 --

[issue31873] Inconsistent capitalization of proper noun - Unicode.

Julien Palard added the comment: I merged it, it's a small change that is consistent enough for me with the rest of the file and the doc. Marc-Andre is right though, and if anyone have the courage, the whole doc should be proofread to update accordingly, but let's make it a whole other PR.

[issue31873] Inconsistent capitalization of proper noun - Unicode.

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[issue31873] Inconsistent capitalization of proper noun - Unicode.

Julien Palard added the comment: New changeset 85225b6a58a516c50c055d5114668ed2fcdcda8c by Julien Palard (toonarmycaptain) in branch 'master': bpo-31873: Update unicode.rst - 'unicode' capitalization (GH-4125) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/85225b6a58a516c50c055d5114668ed2fcdcda8c

[issue31873] Inconsistent capitalization of proper noun - Unicode.

Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: If you want to do this correctly, you have to check each case: * if "unicode object" refers to a C PyUnicode object, it's probably better to use "PyUnicode object" * if "unicode object" refers to a C PyObject object, with type "unicode", it's probably

[issue31873] Inconsistent capitalization of proper noun - Unicode.

Julien Palard added the comment: Currently in our documentation there's 89 "Unicode obj" vs 8 "unicode obj" so I'll go for it. -- nosy: +mdk ___ Python tracker ___

[issue31873] Inconsistent capitalization of proper noun - Unicode.

R. David Murray added the comment: In this case I think the cost of editing for consistency may be higher than the value, especially since as you say there are ambiguous cases. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue31873] Inconsistent capitalization of proper noun - Unicode.

David Antonini added the comment: Does the Unicode documentation currently conform to that convention, or does it require editing? It appears to me that a lot of cases where reference to "Unicode object" is currently capitalised (most of them, in fact) may need to

[issue31873] Inconsistent capitalization of proper noun - Unicode.

R. David Murray added the comment: It may be a proper noun, but it is conventionally spelled with a lowercase letter when referring to the type/object. It would be spelled with an upper case letter when referring to the *standard*. --

[issue31873] Inconsistent capitalization of proper noun - Unicode.

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: I agree that the inconsistency should be fixed. But I'm not sure that we should use the words "an Unicode object" in Python 3. In many similar cases ("a bytes object", "a type object", "a module object") the name of Python type

[issue31873] Inconsistent capitalization of proper noun - Unicode.

New submission from David Antonini : Make 'unicode'/'Unicode' capitalization consistent. 'Unicode' is a proper noun, and as such should be capitalized. I submitted a pull request correcting the inconsistent capitalization in the Unicode page of the Documentation -