Capitalize special cases
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2000
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 32722
interpreted = N
texte = >The desire to correctly capitalize names with apostrophes should not>override the desire to correctly manage the possessive form. If the>parser performed a lookahead and only capitalized after a apostrophe>when the second character after is a letter, not whitespace.We're actually capitalizing after every non-character (to handle periods as sentence beginnings and such), so it's just an accident that the apostrophe works as it does. Is your proposed rule the only one necessary? I could imagine putting that rule in, as long as we don't start bogging down with lots of other special cases. Is there a [grep] replacement string that could be used instead?This is an example of one of those features that we didn't want to include in the first place, but the customer begged and begged and said they didn't mind if it wasn't perfect, and now we're stuck with it. I can imagine an endless stream of special cases for something so willy-nilly as English grammar, which does not 'code well'. Someday someone on the main talk list will latch onto this with the old I asked for this 7.4 months ago, and no one at SM has fixed it yet, and then we'll be stuck in this endless silly battle in which we're always the bad guys. You can imagine how the fall of civilization itself will someday be blamed on this.Grant Hulbert, Director of Engineering **********************************Smith Micro, Internet Solutions Div | eCommerce (WebCatalog)16855 West Bernardo Drive, #380 | -------------------------San Diego, CA 92127 | Software & Site DevelopmentMain Line: (858) 675-1106 | http://www.smithmicro.com Fax: (858) 675-0372 **********************************#############################################################This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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>The desire to correctly capitalize names with apostrophes should not>override the desire to correctly manage the possessive form. If the>parser performed a lookahead and only capitalized after a apostrophe>when the second character after is a letter, not whitespace.We're actually capitalizing after every non-character (to handle periods as sentence beginnings and such), so it's just an accident that the apostrophe works as it does. Is your proposed rule the only one necessary? I could imagine putting that rule in, as long as we don't start bogging down with lots of other special cases. Is there a [grep] replacement string that could be used instead?This is an example of one of those features that we didn't want to include in the first place, but the customer begged and begged and said they didn't mind if it wasn't perfect, and now we're stuck with it. I can imagine an endless stream of special cases for something so willy-nilly as English grammar, which does not 'code well'. Someday someone on the main Talk List will latch onto this with the old I asked for this 7.4 months ago, and no one at SM has fixed it yet, and then we'll be stuck in this endless silly battle in which we're always the bad guys. You can imagine how the fall of civilization itself will someday be blamed on this.Grant Hulbert, Director of Engineering **********************************Smith Micro, Internet Solutions Div | eCommerce (WebCatalog)16855 West Bernardo Drive, #380 | -------------------------San Diego, CA 92127 | Software & Site DevelopmentMain Line: (858) 675-1106 | http://www.smithmicro.com Fax: (858) 675-0372 **********************************#############################################################This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to Send administrative queries to
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