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Opened 14 years ago

Closed 11 years ago

#22474 closed enhancement (fixed)

Change case in Hello world!

Reported by: jane Owned by: chriscct7
Priority: normal Milestone: 4.3
Component: Text Changes Version: 3.4
Severity: normal Keywords: has-patch commit
Cc: Focuses:

Description

Currently, the "Hello world!" headline on the default post is in sentence case rather than title case, which would be "Hello World!"

Title case and sentence case are both grammatically correct, you just need to pick a standard and stick to it. But let's face it, headlines usually use title case. I propose that we change the default post title to use title case instead of sentence case.

Attachments (2)

22474.diff (586 bytes ) - added by ryanduff 14 years ago.
22474.2.patch (2.5 KB ) - added by chriscct7 11 years ago.

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Change History (11)

@ryanduff
14 years ago

#1 @ryanduff
14 years ago

  • Cc ryan@… added
  • Component GeneralUpgrade/Install
  • Keywords has-patch added; needs-patch removed

#2 @greenshady
14 years ago

  • Cc justin@… added

Whether one or both is correct would depend on your style guide. Since blogging is often synonymous with journalism, we should follow the convention of leaving "world" without an uppercase letter.

Another reason to follow this convention is that the title is a complete sentence with a closing punctuation mark.

If anything, I'd argue the text should be "Hello, world!"

#3 @SergeyBiryukov
13 years ago

  • Component Upgrade/InstallText Changes

#4 @chriscct7
11 years ago

  • Milestone Awaiting Review4.3
  • Owner set to chriscct7
  • Priority lownormal
  • Severity trivialnormal
  • Status newaccepted
  • Version 3.4.23.4

The text both to be correct historically and for being correct titlecase should be "Hello, World!".

Updated patch attached that also changes "blogging" to "writing", more in line with CMS text, and "blog" to "website" for the same reason.

@chriscct7
11 years ago

#5 @obenland
11 years ago

I like it.

#6 @chriscct7
11 years ago

  • Keywords commit added

#7 @nacin
11 years ago

I like some of these changes, but I think we should keep "blog post" in the page text. I also think we should keep "Hello world!" Not everyone uses title case for headlines. It's been like this forever, and is ubiquitous in that exact format on the internet thanks to WordPress. I don't think it should change at this point.

#8 @nacin
11 years ago

(@helen voiced general agreement on these.)

#9 @nacin
11 years ago

  • Resolutionfixed
  • Status acceptedclosed

In 32768:

Tweak the first post/page content to get with the times.

props chriscct7.
fixes #22474.

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