Re: Title Case (Was: [OT] multilingual support in MS products

Marco Cimarosti scripsit:

> BTW, I wonder whether it makes sense to apply the English-biased concept of
> "title-case" to languages other than English.

The *name* may be English-specific, but as long as the three forms
"decadenza", "Decadenza", and "DECADENZA" are all possible in different
contexts, then the three operations are all required.  The en-us rules
for titlecasing multi-word strings are *very* language-specific, and
not everyone agrees on which words are to be capitalized and which not,
but titlecasing a single word should be meaningful in any language that
has a cased script.

Perhaps it should be called "sentence-casing".

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