<![CDATA[Capitalization after a colon: what does your language use?]]>In British English, the capitalization of the first word after a colon is fairly simple: no capitalization, unless the word after the colon would be capitalized anyway.

It's a little more difficult in American English: The first word should be capitalized if the sentence after the colon is complete. Sometimes. It depends on your style guide.

According to reading from rae.es and summarized in this spanish.stackexchange answer, it's rare to use a capital after a colon in Spanish.

Right now, we're discussing the use of auto-capitalization of the first letter after a colon in an issue on GitHub. If capitalization after a colon is an exception rather than a rule in most languages represented here, we can safely turn off that automatic capitalization in the Ubuntu Touch keyboard.

We'd like to know: does your native language require a capital letter after a colon most of the time? It seems quite rare in the languages I've researched so far (English, Spanish, German), but I want to make sure.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/topic/3305/capitalization-after-a-colon-what-does-your-language-useRSS for NodeTue, 14 Apr 2026 08:32:24 GMTThu, 31 Oct 2019 16:45:30 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Capitalization after a colon: what does your language use? on Wed, 06 Nov 2019 10:52:43 GMT]]>Oh, wonderful and thank you!

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/24393https://forums.ubports.com/post/24393Wed, 06 Nov 2019 10:52:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Capitalization after a colon: what does your language use? on Tue, 05 Nov 2019 21:46:14 GMT]]>Thanks, everyone! We've gone ahead and merged @mymike's changes to turn off automatic capitalization after a colon.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/24374https://forums.ubports.com/post/24374Tue, 05 Nov 2019 21:46:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Capitalization after a colon: what does your language use? on Mon, 04 Nov 2019 19:48:12 GMT]]>In Romanian there is no capitalization after a colon.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/24328https://forums.ubports.com/post/24328Mon, 04 Nov 2019 19:48:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Capitalization after a colon: what does your language use? on Fri, 01 Nov 2019 18:30:56 GMT]]>@CiberSheep said in Capitalization after a colon: what does your language use?:

In Catalan: Depends on the use of the sentence that goes after the colon.
I could be: lowcase.
It could be: uppercase. The thing is: Does the sentence is a whole sentence on its own?

Same in Dutch

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/24175https://forums.ubports.com/post/24175Fri, 01 Nov 2019 18:30:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Capitalization after a colon: what does your language use? on Fri, 01 Nov 2019 14:07:00 GMT]]>In Catalan: Depends on the use of the sentence that goes after the colon.
I could be: lowcase.
It could be: uppercase. The thing is: Does the sentence is a whole sentence on its own?

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/24158https://forums.ubports.com/post/24158Fri, 01 Nov 2019 14:07:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Capitalization after a colon: what does your language use? on Thu, 31 Oct 2019 19:42:14 GMT]]>@AppLee said in Capitalization after a colon: what does your language use?:

In French, no capitalization is the rule except when the colon introduce a quote.
In Russian, no capitalization except for proper nouns and the first Letter of a sentence (after a dot).

In Italian same as French.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/24137https://forums.ubports.com/post/24137Thu, 31 Oct 2019 19:42:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Capitalization after a colon: what does your language use? on Thu, 31 Oct 2019 19:35:25 GMT]]>In Slovak, there is no capitalization after colon, except speech, citation or new independent text block begins after colon.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/24135https://forums.ubports.com/post/24135Thu, 31 Oct 2019 19:35:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Capitalization after a colon: what does your language use? on Thu, 31 Oct 2019 18:35:36 GMT]]>In French, no capitalization is the rule except when the colon introduce a quote.
In Russian, no capitalization except for proper nouns and the first Letter of a sentence (after a dot).

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/24132https://forums.ubports.com/post/24132Thu, 31 Oct 2019 18:35:36 GMT