On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 14:29, Daniel Mayer wrote:
....., the
instances where it would
*actually* be a problem are vanishingly
small. I've yet to hear of or think of an
example, in fact (although I'm sure there
are a few).
Here is some previous discussion and some examples
(its all been said before);
http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:Feature_requests&…
And the instances where capitalisation causes
problems are many.
>
>Khendon (Jason Williams)
Only proper nouns and some other terms should be
capitalized -- anything else is just incorrect
grammar. We needn't encourage incorrect grammar.
One of the reasons for the automatic capitalization is that first words
of sentences are capitalized. [[Capitalization]] should work the same
way as [[capitalization]]. If we just added case sensitivity without
extending other capabilities, then the previous sentence would have to
be written "[[capitalization|Capitalization]] should work..." which is a
bigger problem than the ones caused by lack of case sensitivity.
However, I too am annoyed by the lack of case sensitivity, so the
addition of case sensitivity with automatic methods of avoiding
[[uncap|Cap]] might be nice. For example, the software could render
"[[capitalization]] should work..." as "Capitalization should
work..."
if it can tell that "[[capitalization]]" is at the beginning of a
sentence. But that's difficult to do right 100% of the time.
Other solutions would have similar complexities.
In short, the status quo isn't perfect, but its consequences are simple
and well-understood.
Other languages may have different priorities, of course.
--tc