Subject: Re: RFC toggleCase
From: Rui Miguel Seabra (rms@multicert.com)
Date: Fri Nov 09 2001 - 04:27:18 CST
On Fri, 2001-11-09 at 10:12, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
> At the moment we have (1) lowercase, (2) uppercase, (3) first-
> capital-rest-lowercase (not in the dialogues yet); (4) sentence
> case, (5) title case, (6) toggle case (cASE x Case).
>
> I consider 1-3 very useful, and 4 occasionally useful. As far as 5
> and 6 are conserned, I consider them gimmics that we can and
> should do without. The toggle case is very difficult to implement
> properly, we would need language-specific word lists to know what
> to capitalise and what not. The alternative, the user doing their title
> capitalisation by hand is more efficient and clean, and I would
> argue that
> it actually requires less effort than to make a selection, open the
> dialogue, and then check the result is satisfactory. As far as (6) is
> concerned, I do not see any real use for it, since the only two
> meaningful
> results it can produce (case, CASE) are already take care of by 1
> & 2.
> So I am inclined to add (3) to the dialogue, remove 5 & 6 from it,
> and close the title case bug.
Hmms.. I don't think toggle case should be removed, but maybe only
implement it with ascii characters, perhaps also accented characters?
Hugs, rms
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