[Locale] language list is lowercase for some locales

[diver]

Setting preferred language to some languages (like Russian or Ukrainian) sets available list to lowercase. Instead first letter of each language name should be capitalized, like it's done for English (default) locale. Same thing could be seen in ReadOnlyBootPrompt.
BTW, there are no components for both of them in Trac.
Tested with hrev35595.

[diver]

Still here in hrev36318.

[pulkomandy]

Are you sure this is needed ? In French, language names are lowercase, while in English they need to always be uppercase. So, we can enforce that in the applications, but not as part of the locale kit itself.

[diver]

Not sure, but at least in Russian, language names need to be uppercase.

[pulkomandy]

That would be a bug on ICU side then.

[diver]

AFAIR ICU was updated some time ago, but this bug is still here in hrev38300.

[zooey]

Diver: I suppose you're a native speaker, but according to

​http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Capitalization_of_Wiktionary_pages#Capitalization_of_language_names

Russian language names are spelled in lower case.

Maybe ICU is correct, after all?

[diver]

This wikimedia article is wrong about Capitalization of language names and Capitalization of names of peoples in Russian language at least.

[zooey]

Replying to diver:

This wikimedia article is wrong about Capitalization of language names and Capitalization of names of peoples in Russian language at least.

Some more research has given me this: the Pons translation dictionary (German -> Russian) gives 'англи́йский язы́к м' as Russian translation for 'English'. That seems to indicate lowercase, too.

So, please give some sources for your claim.

[pulkomandy]

It could also be expecting sentance case in this list. In french the languages are also lowercase, but alone in the list they could be uppercase as well, because it's a list and not words in a sentance.

[diver]

Replying to pulkomandy:

It could also be expecting sentance case in this list. In french the languages are also lowercase, but alone in the list they could be uppercase as well, because it's a list and not words in a sentance.

Ahh, that's right!

[diver]

language list from ubuntu 11.04 installer

[diver]

Can't reproduce this anymore, closing.

[diver]

Well it's still lowercased in Formatting tab in Locale preflet, but not on ReadOnlyBootPrompt.