Re: [OT] multilingual support in MS products (was Re: Kurdish ghayn)

At 06:13 PM 4/27/2003, Adam Twardoch wrote:

> The habit of "titlecasing" i.e. capitalizing first letters
> of each word in a title, is specific to only few languages, e.g. English.

And it is a much more common practice in North America than in other 
English-speaking countries, including the UK. When I was typesetting 
_Language Culture Type_, the American editor opted not to capitalise every 
word of each essay title in deference to the international nature of the 
publication.

John Hudson

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