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[Bug localedata/16190] [PATCH] Please add the esperanto (eo) locale


https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16190

--- Comment #30 from Eduardo TrÃpani <eduardo at esperanto dot org.uy> ---
(In reply to Nik Kalach from comment #29)
> According to the Wikipedia article [1] about Esperanto orthography: "Names
> of months, days of the week, ethnicities, languages, and the adjectival
> forms of proper names are not typically capitalized (anglo "an Englishman",
> angla "English", usona "US American"), though national norms may override
> such generalizations."
> 
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto_alphabet

Short answer: they're ok capitalized.

Long answer: while it is true that both usages are now current[2], the
"Fundamento" (you can read here about how normative that document is[3]) uses
uppercase. That basically means you cannot go wrong if you capitalize them. You
can also check the Akademio de Esperanto[4] and their official dictionary. See
for example the entries for January[5] and Tuesday[6].

[2]
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=eo&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fbertilow.com%2Fpmeg%2Fgramatiko%2Fpropraj_nomoj%2Fmajuskloj.html&edit-text=
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamento
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akademio_de_esperanto
[5]
http://www.akademio-de-esperanto.org/fundamento/universala_vortaro.html#av-1818
[6]
http://www.akademio-de-esperanto.org/fundamento/universala_vortaro.html#av-2684

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