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    Capitalization after a colon: what does your language use?

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      UniSuperBox last edited by

      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.

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      • AppLee
        AppLee last edited by AppLee

        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).

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        • jezek
          jezek last edited by

          In Slovak, there is no capitalization after colon, except speech, citation or new independent text block begins after colon.

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            matteo @AppLee last edited by matteo

            @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.

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            • CiberSheep
              CiberSheep last edited by

              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?

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              • arubislander
                arubislander @CiberSheep last edited by

                @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

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                • mihael
                  mihael last edited by

                  In Romanian there is no capitalization after a colon.

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                    UniSuperBox last edited by

                    Thanks, everyone! We've gone ahead and merged @mymike's changes to turn off automatic capitalization after a colon.

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                    • mihael
                      mihael last edited by

                      Oh, wonderful and thank you!

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