Opened 16 years ago

Closed 16 years ago

Last modified 16 years ago

#11173 closed (invalid)

Updating some spanish translation. (Months and days translation)

Reported by: Pablo Suárez Hdez. Owned by: Pablo Suárez Hdez.
Component: Translations Version: 1.0
Severity: Keywords: months, days, day, month, spanish, translation
Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

The spanish months and days translations are all totally lowercase. I think they should use the same format (first character uppercase) that the english words.

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spanish_translation-r10834.diff (3.0 KB ) - added by Pablo Suárez Hdez. 16 years ago.

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Change History (6)

comment:1 by Pablo Suárez Hdez., 16 years ago

Status: newassigned

by Pablo Suárez Hdez., 16 years ago

comment:2 by Pablo Suárez Hdez., 16 years ago

Has patch: set
Triage Stage: UnreviewedReady for checkin

Because of this is a trivial change (some characters changes in some translations), I triage the ticket to "Ready to Checkin" as Django Documentation says.

comment:3 by Karen Tracey, 16 years ago

Triage Stage: Ready for checkinUnreviewed

Hang on a sec, this needs review from someone familiar with Spanish conventions. Per this page:

http://spanish.about.com/od/writtenspanish/a/capitalization.htm

it is NOT customary to capitalize the names of months and days in Spanish. That sounds similar to what I learned of French when I took it in high school. Also, I'd be surprised if such a basic thing has been "wrong" in the translation for so long, but since I have no formal Spanish training I'll leave this open for someone who actually knows for real. You simply say it should be like English -- but from the little research I've done Spanish here is just not like English.

comment:4 by Pablo Suárez Hdez., 16 years ago

Resolution: invalid
Status: assignedclosed

Ok, that true!

After a little research I found this page from "Official Real Academy of Spanish Language" (http://www.rae.es/rae/gestores/gespub000018.nsf/(voAnexos)/arch8100821B76809110C12571B80038BA4A/$File/CuestionesparaelFAQdeconsultas.htm#ap32) where this case is described and say that months, days and seasons are lowercase (except when puntuations requires uppercase)

I'm spanish and the reason for this ticket was that here in Spain this language rule is not use for everyone. The people use lower and upper in this cases without following any rule.

Excuse me for this confusion. I turn the ticket to "invalid".

comment:5 by Marc Fargas, 16 years ago

The right thing to do here would be to ensure that the "|capfirs"t filter is used when month names appear at the beggining of sentences, etc. So all those Latin languages could benefit from proper casing.

That's not only with months but also other things like weekdays, even places as not *all* place names are uppercased (at least in Spanish). Only Countries.

But that's a story for another ticket ;)

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