Language Navigation

Wolf Peuker wolfpeuker at googlemail.com
Mon Feb 15 06:38:41 CST 2010


Jens Seidel wrote:
>>> Why do you choose capitalisation? According to the footer of www.debian.org
>>> español is the proper Spanish word. Same for other entries ...
>> I think in English it's the same as in German. I asked a native
>> Portuguese speaker who speaks Spanish too, and he said. Capitalized if
>> you address the language. In Wikipedia I see Capitalization.
> 
> Right, in English you write language names capitalized. But "español" is
> not English (this would be "Spanish"). A Spanish person recognizes it's
> language as "español" and not "Español".
Would you correct this for Spanish, or would it be better to wait for a
Spanisch native speaker's response for that, and apply the patch first?
I'm not sure if web language navigation isn't a special case...

Regards,
Wolf




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