Marco Cimarosti asked:
Time ago, we discovered some complex behavior in the capitalization
of Irish: some initial letters, called "mutations" never get
capitalized ... I was wondering:
Can these mutations only occur after a determinative, or can they
also be at the beginning of a sentence?
Only after certain other words: they can't be at the beginning of a
sentence. (For fear of a pedantic correction, there is or used to be a
dialect form with initial <h> which could occur at the beginning of a
sentence [e.g. "hAinmn�odh � ..."], but it is never written nowadays,
though sometimes spoken. Only lower-case <h> followed by a vowel is
possible in this construction.)
Is this automatically implemented in the case folding function of
localized word processors?
No.
T� f�ilte romhat.
S�amas � Br�g�in
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