Re: ALL CAPS input and Sentence case

On 27/07/2011 1:48am, christian.posta wrote:
> Forgive me if this might be more of a python-centric or text-handling
> question more than Django, but it does come up within the context of
> web development, processing user input, etc in all web frameworks
> including django. I did a quick search on the forum and couldn't find
> an answer. (I've also googled, but didn't turn up anything
> useful....). Maybe someone can direct me to the answer...
>
> For user input, I would like to format what they enter into 'sentence
> case'
> Example, if they input ALL CAPS for a description, I want to lowercase
> that, but according to sentence rules (first word in sentence upper
> case, rest lowercase up to the period).
>
> I was hoping something like this exists as a convenience function/
> module, but if not i guess i'll have to write it myself.

It isn't easy for English and I don't know about other languages. Long
ago I wrote such a thing for mailing addresses. If it is free text your
users are writing you have to deal with all sorts of stuff. I only had
to handle names like McTavish, O'Reilly and so on. Also I had to use an
array of known upper-case acronyms such as USA, GPO etc.

On the other hand, if you write it in Python from a test-driven
perspective it would become a very useful library.

I'd be super-keen to use it.

Mike

>
> Thanks!
>

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