[mb-i18n] Guess Case

Alexander Dupuy dupuy at cs.columbia.edu
Mon Dec 13 15:16:37 UTC 2004


> I think it's a good idea to have 'do' always converted to 'Do' instead of
> the other way around. Until now, I've never come across a title where 'do'
> is anything else than the verb. After using the Guess Case button I had to
> manually correct a lot of titles.
> 
> Is there a good reason for having it the way it is now?

The reason it is lowercased is probably for Portuguese, where "do" is "of the" 
(and maybe Italian?) but I agree that Guess Case should capitalize it as "Do", 
rather than make it lowercase.

While fixing that, perhaps we could add a "Caps first only" button for use with 
titles in all the non-English languages where the capitalization rules are to 
use normal sentence capitalization (first word only, except for names)?  This 
would be for an individual title only; given the likelihood of at least one 
name in an entire album of titles, I don't see a need for a "Caps all first 
only" button to do this for all the titles in an album.

@alex




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