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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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