Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Cosmetic changes?

Khaled,

That is precisely the point. Most locales are more specific with regards 
to things like sentence case vs camel case. English just changes its 
approach to this issue depending on the phase of the moon and the number 
of ripe mangos in Florida. In German, you can't just decide that 
suddently you're going to change the way caps work, German rules are 
quite clear on the whole about what you can and cannot capitalize and 
that's not a stylistic choice but rules that depend on grammatical 
categories. Nouns, basically, can be capitalized. If it's not a noun, 
forget it. No amount of stylistic filing in en-US will change German 
spelling rules.

Same goes for Gaelic. Or indeed, Chinese, Hindi, Urdu, Marathi, 
Georgian, Nepali etc which don't even have upper and lowercase 
characters/glyphs.

It seems very odd to think that just because en-US implements a 
stylistic change, suddenly the rest of the planet has to follow suit. Of 
*course* if there is a typo in en-US then it needs fixing but if I've 
already localized the string then, unless the typo was sense-changing, I 
don't care because I won't have copied the typo, will I? I make my own 
typos ;)

Michael

Sgrìobh Khaled Hosny na leanas 13/12/2014 aig 21:45:
> Huh? English (US) is the “source” language, changes to it should, by
> default, be reflected in all other localisation, unless those changes
> are not applicable to the target language, but this is the exception not
> the rule.
>
> Regards,
> Khaled


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