Re: cryptui: Use the same capitalization for the same string
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 -- Francois Gouget <fgouget(a)free.fr> http://fgouget.free.fr/ E-Voting: Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.
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. -- Francois Gouget <fgouget(a)free.fr> http://fgouget.free.fr/ RFC 2549: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2549.txt IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service
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