Turn off title casing of UI text elements

[oestrogen]

Even after translation all (or, rather confusingly, most) UI text elements (such as buttons and microcopy) of Apostrophe get title cased.

This might be the correct thing to do in American English, but not in a big part of the remaining languages of the world. It breaks both Swedish, which should be sentence cased, and German which should be sentence and proper noun cased. Just leave it to the translator!

[jzfi]

This is annoying as a default feature and I spent some time to find a solution to this behavior. After digging trough the code to find an overridden function or anything else that would capitalize (didn't remember this term for it at that point) the text I finally got the idea that maybe it's in the CSS formatting. I remembered that there is a text-transform rule, but I had forgotten that it also has a value called capitalize.

So just override that a.css property in your main.css. For ex.

.a-btn { text-transform: none; }

It occurs many times in a.css for different elements. I suggest that all occurrences of this property should be moved from a.css to the default sandbox main.css. It maybe nice for the demo, but non-English languages don't like this behavior.

[jzfi]

Replying to jzfi:

This kills all the capitalization found in a.css. Put it in your main.css.

.a-form-row label, .a-btn, #a-breadcrumb .a-breadcrumb-title.current-page,
#a-breadcrumb .a-breadcrumb-width, #a-breadcrumb-create-childpage-max-message,
#feedback-link, .a-admin fieldset h2, .a-admin-bar .a-admin-title
{
	text-transform: none;
}

[tboutell]

Let's kill this everywhere with a big rock. It's true, forcing capitalization via CSS is an i18n mess.

[johnnyoffline]

All use of text-transform is completely removed from 1.4 and trunk.

Anywhere I wanted to use it, was moved to main.css of the sandbox

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