Re: cryptui: Use the same capitalization for the same string

[Francois Gouget]

On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, André Hentschel wrote:
> So that the string needs only one translation in po files

-  GROUPBOX "Certification path", -1,6,10,245,165, BS_GROUPBOX
+  GROUPBOX "Certification Path", -1,6,10,245,165, BS_GROUPBOX

Unfortunately this goes against the Windows User Experience Interaction 
Guidelines.

Group box labels are supposed to use sentence-style capitalization: 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511459.aspx

But dialog box titles are supposed to use title-style capitalization, 
hence the case difference:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511268.aspx#titles


Glossary:
 * Sentence-style capitalization
   http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511441.aspx#SentenceCaps

 * Title-style capitalization
   http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511441.aspx#TitleCaps

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cryptui: Use the same capitalization for the same string

[Francois Gouget]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Francois Gouget wrote:
[...]
> Group box labels are supposed to use sentence-style capitalization: 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511459.aspx
>
> But dialog box titles are supposed to use title-style capitalization, 
> hence the case difference:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511268.aspx#titles

One more precision though: capitalization rules are language-specific 
and often poorly or completely undocumented for anything but English.

For instance, from memory, the Gnome Interface Guidelines, which are 
written in English, specify that buttons must use title-style 
capitalization. However in French the rule is that everything uses 
sentence-style capitalization.

So what I wrote in my previous email only applies to English and 
translators will need to figure out on their own what is appropriate for 
their language.


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