Re: Localised capitalisation?
Re: Localised capitalisation?
- Subject: Re: Localised capitalisation?
- From: David Remahl <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 17:33:39 +0200
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On 29 apr 2004, at 14.14, Patrick Machielse wrote:
Hi list,
I've been translating an application into dutch, and I've come up with
a
problem regarding menu item capitalisation.
The Apple Human Interface Guidelines says to use what they call 'title
capitalisation' for the titles of menu items. So for instance:
"Submit CD Track Names" (from iTunes)
However, in Apple programs translated to dutch, german and french
(these
ones I checked), Apple seems to use what they call 'sentence
capitalisation':
"Verstuur cd-tracknamen"
"CD-Titel senden"
"Soumettre le nom des pistes du CD"
This is consistent across all Apple supplied programs. It seems as if
'title
style for menu item titles' only applies to english (and dialects) and
that
other languages should use 'sentence style".
Is this in fact so, and is there any Apple documentation that confirms
this,
or explains the reasoning behind this apparent difference?
The same is true for Swedish applications.
I haven't seen any official documentation that says that this is the
case, but the fact that Apple themselves are doing it should be enough
in this case.
I believe that one reason for the difference is that different
languages have different rules for capitalisation. For example,
headings are not capitalized on "major" words in Swedish, the way they
are in American English. Other titles, such as pop groups, are also
printed in lower case except for the first character and names. I think
that traditionally, British English also uses "sentence style".
/ Regards, David Remahl
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