On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
I love to second this request. We also write Arabic, Georgian, Hebrew, Thai, Chinese and Farsi it in its script, the whole point IS that we write it as it is written in the script of the language, why write it with bad orthography?? The name of the language in Italian is: *italiano. *Please make it so.
Hey, it seems that I'm the only Italian on this list and that as soon as I leave the computer for two or three days something interesting happens.
In Italian, language names *used* to be capitalized, and the adjectiove for inhabitants (Italians, Americans and so on) as well. The recent trend is instead to not capitalize those names. The result is that you can find both forms, since older people are used the first and younger people to the second. People who want their writing to be seen as "learned" and authoritative might use the capitalized form too...
The problem anyway doens't exist since the interwiki list is indeed a list, and there's no problem in having a list with capitalized items, be they language names or not. So the current form is OK. A list with mixed case would be instead quite strange and, I suspect, wrong.
Alfio