[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 128316] FIELDS: Allow date field with lower case letters

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128316

--- Comment #25 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to itt788 from comment #24)
> (In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #23)
> > (In reply to itt788 from comment #22)
> > > Auto-capitalisation must be removed from the code making the date
> > > field. Spell checker with its grammar and language options should take care
> > > of capitalisation for the whole document on the basis of user settings.
> > 
> > This has no sense. Fields value is not subject to grammar checker (and must
> > not be.)
> 
> I hope having not been misunderstood.
> 
> In my previous comment i meant that in whatever language capitalisation is a
> matter of grammar. Thus the date field should never force either
> capitalisation or non-capitalisation unless the user wishes so, in which
> case he must turn on spell-checker with grammar option.

Here it the thing I objected to. The phrase "the date field should never force
either capitalisation or non-capitalisation unless the user wishes so, in which
case he must turn on spell-checker with grammar option" implies that the
spell-checker would somehow suggest and/or change capitalization of the date
field text. But *that* will not happen, because field data is not spell-checked
in any way. From spell checked point of view, a field is some kind of external
object, like image. Its content is not something that user types freely, and is
calculated automatically from some source data. Thus an expectation that spell
checker would do something instead of the field itself is wrong. Thus some
method of capitalization *must* be embedded into the field, or else user will
have no way to control that (just the same way as it it now, only the opposite
direction: when one wants capitalization, that would be impossible).

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