lo-commit-stat: why lowercase the first letter?

Christian Lohmaier lohmaier+libreoffice at googlemail.com
Mon May 21 03:38:50 PDT 2012


Hi Petr, *,

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Petr Mladek <pmladek at suse.cz> wrote:
> Korrawit Pruegsanusak píše v Ne 20. 05. 2012 v 11:28 +0700:
>> Hello Petr, all,
>
> [*] I do not have any string opinion whether lower or uppercase letter
>    is better. Maybe, we should use upper case because there are
>    sometimes longer sentences, see
>    http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/punc-lists.html
>
>    Also there is problem with shortcats, for example, the script
>    sometimes replaces "XML" with "xML" which looks ugly

The XML, RTF,... case can be handled by only lowercasing when the
second letter is not uppercae. That should

>> * could this behavior be removed? If yes, I can push the patch to master.
>
> I am open for any improvement or changes. I am just curious, why don't
> you like the current behavior? ;-)

I understand that rTF and xML looks ugly :-)
But that of course doesn't say anything about the "first character
shall be lowercase" rule, just that that rule needs exceptions :-)

ciao
Christian


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