Some language names aren't capitalised

Bug #1487479 reported by Cleiton Floss
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Switchboard Locale Plug
Confirmed
Undecided
Cleiton Floss

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Cleiton Floss (cleitonfloss) wrote :
Changed in switchboard-plug-locale:
assignee: nobody → Cleiton Floss (cleitonfloss)
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Marvin Beckers (embik) wrote :

Hey, you did not propose your branch for a merge yet - Is there any reason for that?

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Marvin Beckers (embik) wrote :

After some consideration, we came to the conclusion that this is not a bug we want to fix. Languages are translated into their native spelling. If it's not capitalized, it's intended to be that way. The plug shouldn't enforce possibly wrong grammar.

Changed in switchboard-plug-locale:
status: New → Won't Fix
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Danielle Foré (danrabbit) wrote :

I'm going to change it back to "confirmed" because it seems there is some action we can take. According to Lucas, in French (for example) it would be capitalized as a title, but not in a sentence. So while we probably don't want to force capitalization, it would be useful to have a comment in the translator notes that it is a title.

Changed in switchboard-plug-locale:
status: Won't Fix → Confirmed
milestone: none → loki-beta1
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xapantu (xapantu) wrote :

So we just checked that, there is no obvious way to do it. The code uses this function: https://developer.gnome.org/gnome-desktop3/stable/gnome-desktop3-Language-Utilities.html#gnome-get-language-from-locale which is not supposed to be used to get a title.

As this part is done by libgnome-desktop3, nothing can be done directly here, so the only way to fix this bug is providing a patch forr this library, and then adapt our code.

Just using an uppercase letter for the first letter of the language will not work properly (that's a very locale-dependent way to see it). In French, this word could just be "français", here it is a bit odd, as the other are capitalized and it is kinda used as a title.

So, definitively confirmed but not for beta1.

Changed in switchboard-plug-locale:
milestone: loki-beta1 → none
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