[Pkg-isocodes-devel] iso 639 codes in Danish - small initial letter?

[Keld Simonsen]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:07:16PM -0400, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Keld Simonsen (keld at keldix.com):
> > Hi
> > 
> > I am one of the Danish translators for the iso_639 file.
> > I note the standard ISO 639 has a French version, where
> > the names of the languages are spelled with an initial 
> > small letter. The rules in Danish is that language names are
> > spelled with an initial small letter too.
> > 
> > So should we have all language names in the  Danish 
> > po file for ISO 639 langiage names starting with a small letter?
> 
> 
> Well, you're right that in French languages names are not
> capitalized. Still, in the French translations of ISO 639, I didi use
> capitals.
> 
> This was on request of the GNOME developers who stated that, most of
> the time, these translations are used in lists....where a list of
> uncapitalized names look really weird.
> 
> So, I made an exception and capitalized the language names and I would
> recommend doing the same for Danish.
> 
I just see the language names popping up with
capitals in web interfaces, in the middle of sentences, but maybe
that data is not taken from the iso_639 broject.

Anyway I think the right way is to do an initial
capitalization if this is wanted. What we have now
is canonisation of wrong spelling for a number of
languages, including French and Danish.
That would be systematic detoriating of language spelling.

How do you easily do an initial capitalization? Is there a
printf string format specification?

Best regards
keld