[I7-2029] [Mantis 2066] 'Sentence case' surprisingly de-capitalizes proper nouns

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Reported by : lpsmith

Description :

For Cragne Manor, we had the attached 'minimal source text'. What was supposed to happen was that you could either have:

"the insignia of the Backwater Public Library"

or

"The insignia of the Backwater Public Library".

However, the second turned into:

"The insignia of the backwater public library".

However! If you had the original as:

"The Insignia Of The Backwater Public Library"

you would want what you got as the 'sentence case' version of that sentence. Similarly, it behaves as expected for:

"THE INSIGNIA OF THE BACKWATER PUBLIC LIBRARY".

So! I propose that 'sentence case' does the following:

• If every word in the original text has the same capitalization (all caps, initial caps, or no caps), that it change it to first-word-initial-caps, other-words-lower-case.
• Otherwise, it changes it to first-word-initial-caps, other-words-original-caps.

  Steps to reproduce :

  To say library insignia:
      say "the insignia of the Backwater Public Library[one of], two back-to-back crescent moons joined by an eye looking down at an open book[or][stopping]".
  
  To say Library insignia:
      let the result be "[library insignia]" in sentence case;
      say the result.
  
  

  Additional information :

imported from: [Mantis 2066] 'Sentence case' surprisingly de-capitalizes proper nouns

• status: Closed
• resolution: Resolved
• resolved: 2022-04-16T14:18:11+10:00
• imported: 2022/01/10

[curiousdannii-testing]

557058:4c095ffd-6d6f-47ce-9e73-77c613347b86:

Comment by zarf :
I agree that the original behavior was surprising, but I assert that the proposed behavior would be confusing and more surprising (a lot of the time).

There could be a new phrase which just applies sentence-case to the first word of the string and leaves the rest of it unchanged.

[curiousdannii-testing]

61eedb62875fc10070240916:

Closed as feature request.