On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:17 PM, Christian Dywan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:18:09 +0300 > schrieb Stavros Giannouris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:50:43 -0400 >> "Og Maciel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Hi there, >> > >> > The Brazilian GNOME translation team has decided to update every >> > single application to *not* use the "capitalization" style, >> > following instead the Brazilian Portuguese style of only using caps >> > at the start of sentences and other instances (names of countries, >> > etc). I have strived to apply the same style to the XFCE >> > translations as well. >> > >> > Cheers, >> >> I did the same for Greek, as this is exactly how it should be done >> around here, too. >> It may be a lot of effort if it is done otherwise, but if non >> capitalised application names etc is the correct way grammaticaly, I >> think it should be done. > > For the record, in the case of German, there is no artificial > capitalization comparable to English. Granted nouns are always > capitalized, everything else is written in lower case, just the same as > any arbitrary written text. > > As far as I'm aware, Spanish doesn't normally do any capitalization > either apart from what the normal flow suggests and how you usually > would write a word or sentence. > > I personally find myself even slightly uncomfortable using English > style capitalization, again, in all contexts. It is worth noting > that English also capitalizes outside of programme interfaces. > > For what I want, I would not newly introduce this style. >
Well, it looks like "decapitalisation" can't be avoided :\ > Yours, > Christian > _______________________________________________ > Xfce-i18n mailing list > [email protected] > http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce-i18n > _______________________________________________ Xfce-i18n mailing list [email protected] http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce-i18n
