[Pkg-samba-maint] r1480 - in trunk/samba/debian: . po

Christian Perrier bubulle at debian.org
Wed Jul 18 05:42:03 UTC 2007


Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon at debian.org):
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 06:37:02PM +0000, bubulle at alioth.debian.org wrote:
> > Log:
> > Remove Extra Capitalization As We Are Not Speaking German
> 
> No, we're speaking English, and as this is a /title/ rather than a sentence,
> it's valid to capitalize each word.

I do not agree that this is a title. I would call this a "prompt" or a
"question". 

In general, select/multiselect short descriptions are not treated as
title in debconf templates and I think it should be made consistent
with that.

> 
> Further, several of the "unfuzzied" translations retain capitalizations that
> are consistent with the way the title was being capitalized in English, and
> not at all consistent with the new capitalization.


I do not agree either..:). Choosing the Right Capitalization should be
done by translators by following the typographical rules of their
language, not by following those from English or theose used by
maintainers. So, by definition, we should assume they are correct with
regard to their rules, whatever change we make to templates with
regards to typography.

Whether they really do it or not is *their* problem..:-)


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