The related wikipedia article write that it was a urband leyend: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acentuaci%C3%B3n_de_las_may%C3%BAsculas
So is wrong to drop these accents. On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Mark Williamson<[email protected]> wrote: > Since when does Spanish drop accent markers in capital form? If you > have seen anybody do this, it is just a misspelling. For example: > http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ópera or > http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/África or > http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Océano_Índico > > I have been told that Greek drops accents in capital form but this may > not be true. Other than that, though, I am not acquainted with any > language that does such a thing (but of course that doesn't mean none > exist). > > Mark > > skype: node.ue > > > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Brion Vibber<[email protected]> wrote: >> On 7/28/09 10:04 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: >>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Mark Williamson<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Case insensitivity shouldn't be a problem for any language, as long as >>>> you do it properly. >>>> >>>> Turkish and other languages using dotless i, for example, will need a >>>> special rule - Turkish lowercase dotted i capitalizes to a capital >>>> dotted İ while lowercase undotted ı capitalizes to regular undotted I. >>> >>> And so what if a wiki is multilingual and you don't know what language >>> the page name is in? What if a Turkish wiki contains some English >>> page names as loan words, for instance? >> >> Indeed, good handling of case-insensitive matchings would be a big win >> for human usability, but it's not easy to get right in all cases. >> >> The main problems are: >> >> 1) Conflicts when we really do consider something separate, but the case >> folding rules match them together >> >> 2) Language-specific case folding rules in a multilingual environment >> >> Turkish I with/without dot and German ß not always matching to SS are >> the primary examples off the top of my head. Also, some languages tend >> to drop accent markers in capital form (eg, Spanish). What can or should >> we do here? -- -- ℱin del ℳensaje. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
