Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Cosmetic changes?

Exactly, you wrapped it nicely.

In croatian it's similiar, only names (people, brands, companies...) and 
some nouns can have capital letter, rest can't.
I'm not really sure if english doesn't have any caps rules or people 
just ignore them for "style" sake.

From my point of view new All Caps Way is bad, but if it makes them 
happy I really don't care.
Point is, don't transfer meaningless work onto others, make your changes 
only in en_US without marking all of our strings "fuzzy" and we will all 
stay happy. :)

I know everyone is sick and tired of mailing lists rant about this, but 
this actually isn't first time this happened.
There wasn't much complaining about ~ to _ and that brought shitload of 
unneeded fuzzy strings, but we all survived.
Let's not have this again.

Mihovil

13.12.2014. u 23:08, Michael Bauer je napisao/la:
> 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


--
To unsubscribe e-mail to: l10n+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org
Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/l10n/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted