All languages in my neighbourhood use lowercase language names:
Estonian, Swedish, Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian.
Using separate msgids for lower- and uppercase looks attractive, but
then the ids in source don't match natural English any more (e.g.
explicit lowercase could be used in the ids where they don't start a
sentence: _("estonian")). That is a problem in case i18n is not used
at all.
_("Estonian") would be translated to en as "Estonian" and to et as
"Eesti", whereas _("estonian") would be translated to en still as
"Estonian" but to et as "eesti".
Currently, Finnish django.po uses lowercase for language names, but
Russian and Latvian django.pos use uppercase (which look unnatural and
incorrect for native speakers).
On Jun 16, 11:49 am, Marc Fargas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Due to ticket #7461 an issue was raised about uppercase language names.
> In English, languages are written with the first letter being uppercase
> while other languages like 'es' and 'ca' write them lowercased unless
> they're the begining of a sentence or single words.
>
> This is currently impossible to distinguish with the current msgid's. So
> two questions for everybody:
>
> * Which languages are affected by the same thing? (That is, which
> languages type language names lowercase unless beggining sentences or
> single words).
>
> * Any idea on how to get that information from the msgid's?
>
> For the idea, one option would be having both msgid's (lower and
> uppercase) so translation would be easy, but that would need the 'en'
> locale to be up-to-date and having both msgstr set to uppercase. But
> it's one possible solution. Ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Marc
> --http://www.marcfargas.com-- will be finished some day.
>
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