Le 23/12/2009 20:04, Dave Page a écrit :
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
> <guillaume@lelarge.info> wrote:
>
>> I don't really know what the english standard way of casing words is. I
>> know that, in French, you're supposed to put the first character of a
>> string in uppercase. In English, I suppose I need to put the first
>> character of each word in uppercase. So, I think we need to upper case
>> the n in "Column name" (ie, "Column Name"). Can you confirm?
>
> Sorry - I meant to explain more but was multi-tasking and messed up :-(
>
No problem :)
> In grammatically correct English, only the first word of a sentence
> should be capitalised, but looking at other software like XCode and
> Firefox, it seems it's not that simple. In fact, as I'm trying to
> write this, I'm struggling to see a pattern in either of those apps -
> for example, in XCode's preferences pane I see options like:
>
> Automatically Suggest
> Suggestion delay
> Default File Encoding
> Tab indents
>
> So, I think we should use English rules, and only capitalise the first
> word, *except* for following words which have special meaning because
> they are SQL keywords for example, or acronyms.
>
OK. I've done that on the dlgIndex source (.cpp and .xrc files). We need
to do this on the complete source.
New patch attached.
>> Will do. Should it be in another patch?
>
> Probably better, if only to keep the commit logs focused on one change.
>
OK. I'll do in another patch, but I would like to commit this one before.
>> Or we have to tell them we need to drop and create their index when they
>> click the OK button, perhaps giving them the choice to do it
>> concurrently. I wonder if there are other objects that would need that
>> treatment.
>
> I can't say I'm that excited about that. It's probably safer for them
> to create the new index manually and then drop the old. I suppose we
> could create, drop, rename, but there's still something about the idea
> that gives me the heebie-jeebies.
>
OK, not really a big issue anyways.
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Guillaume.
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