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<small>[[Guess Case Mode|Guess case modes]] > French capitalization mode</small>
=French guess case mode=

<small>[[Guess Case Mode|Guess case modes]] > French capitalization mode </small>


==About==
==About==


This page describes the French mode of the [[Guess Case|GuessCase]] function.
This page describes the French mode of the [[Guess Case]] function.


==Implements the following Guidelines and CapitalizationStandards==
==Implements the following Guidelines and Capitalization Standards==


The French guess case mode is based on the [[Guess Case Mode/Sentence Mode|sentence mode]].
The French guess case mode is based on the [[Guess Case Mode/Sentence Mode|sentence mode]].


Generally, the first word of a sentence is capitalized, and the other words are lowercased. The [[Capitalization Standard French|CapitalizationStandardFrench]] requires users to convert the nouns (people, places, see the standard page for details) to be titled, therefore some manual interaction is required after the guess case function was applied.
Generally, the first word of a sentence is capitalized, and the other words are lowercased. The [[Capitalization Standard French]] requires users to convert the nouns (people, places, see the standard page for details) to be titled, therefore some manual interaction is required after the guess case function was applied.


French uses special whitespace rules before punctuation, a space is inserted before the punctuation marks semicolon, colon, exclamation mark and question mark (;:!?) and text inside guillemets is padded with a space, respectively (« some text »).
French uses special whitespace rules before punctuation, a space is inserted before the punctuation marks semicolon, colon, exclamation mark and question mark (;:!?) and text inside guillemets is padded with a space, respectively (« some text »).


===Additional resources===
==Additional resources==


* [[Capitalization Standard French|CapitalizationStandardFrench]]
* [[Capitalization Standard French]]
* [http://blog.empyree.org/?2004/01/31/181-internationalisation-punctuation-support http://blog.empyree.org/?2004/01/31/181-internationalisation-punctuation-support]
* [http://blog.empyree.org/?2004/01/31/181-internationalisation-punctuation-support http://blog.empyree.org/?2004/01/31/181-internationalisation-punctuation-support]
* [http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/french.html http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/french.html]
* [http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/french.html http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/french.html]



Revision as of 12:33, 31 March 2009

Guess case modes > French capitalization mode

About

This page describes the French mode of the Guess Case function.

Implements the following Guidelines and Capitalization Standards

The French guess case mode is based on the sentence mode.

Generally, the first word of a sentence is capitalized, and the other words are lowercased. The Capitalization Standard French requires users to convert the nouns (people, places, see the standard page for details) to be titled, therefore some manual interaction is required after the guess case function was applied.

French uses special whitespace rules before punctuation, a space is inserted before the punctuation marks semicolon, colon, exclamation mark and question mark (;:!?) and text inside guillemets is padded with a space, respectively (« some text »).

Additional resources