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Bug 735536 - Weird usage of case on the first page
Weird usage of case on the first page
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 761776
Product: l10n
Classification: Infrastructure
Component: French [fr]
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: French Translator Team
French Translator Team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-08-27 16:36 UTC by Mathieu Bridon
Modified: 2016-02-09 15:25 UTC
See Also:
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Description Mathieu Bridon 2014-08-27 16:36:22 UTC 
The first page asks the user to choose a language.

Among the list are « English » or « Deutsch », capitalized as titles.

And then, there is « français » (French), all lower-case.

In French, grammar dictates that when used in a sentence, language names should not be capitalized.

However, this is not a sentence. It is a list, each item has one word, and they should all be capitalized the same (well, for languages that actually have the concept of a case).
Comment 1 Rui Matos 2014-08-27 17:11:46 UTC 
This is a translation problem in the iso-codes package:

$ LC_ALL=fr_FR.utf8 gettext iso_639 French
français

$ LC_ALL=de_DE.utf8 gettext iso_639 German
Deutsch
Comment 2 Alexandre Franke 2014-08-28 12:42:21 UTC 
I want to get this fixed upstream, so I'm keeping this report open as a tracker.

Rui, any idea where that upstream would be?
Comment 3 Jasper St. Pierre (not reading bugmail) 2014-08-28 13:02:32 UTC 
https://pkg-isocodes.alioth.debian.org/
Comment 4 Rui Matos 2016-02-09 15:25:40 UTC 
Seems like we can and should fix this on our end since those translations don't have enough context for translators to know whether they should be capitalized.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 761776 ***