It might be easier to enumerate the languages which do use uppercase
for language names. Most often, I think, language names are
considered adjectives to the noun ``language'' and they are normally
in lower case despite being derived from proper names. At least, as a
speaker of Bulgarian, I'm sure that most (if not all) Slavic languages
hold that view.
What is worse, you could have grammatical cases as in Russian,
Serbian, etc., or even a definite article as in French (dependent on
gender, number, and the first letter of the next word):
_("History of the English language") == "Histoire de la langue
anglais"
_("English is a Germanic language") == "L'anglais est une langue
germanique"
You cannot translate an isolated word without attaching some meta-
information about the role it plays in a sentence.
--Nick
On 16 Юни, 11:49, 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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