[Libexif-devel] Upper or lower?

[Dan F. <da...@co...>]

libexif is pretty inconsistent about whether it returns strings in
upper case, lower case or mixed case. For example:

Resolution Unit     |Inch
YCbCr Positioning   |centerd
Exposure Program    |Normal program
Orientation         |top - left
Metering Mode       |Center-Weighted Average
Quality             |BASIC  
Unknown tag         |0
FlashPixVersion     |Unknown FlashPix Version

This not only looks funny, but makes the job of translators more difficult;
forty strings appear up to three times each, differing only in case and
spacing.  

I'm going to make these more consistent. If I don't hear any objections,
I'm going to make the names/titles (the part before the |) mixed upper
and lower case like an actual title (as most of them above are), and
the values (after the |) all lower case, except when certain words or
abbreviations have to be capitalized.  The examples above would then
look like this:

Resolution Unit     |inch
YCbCr Positioning   |centerd
Exposure Program    |normal program
Orientation         |top - left
Metering Mode       |center-weighted average
Quality             |basic  
Unknown Tag         |0
FlashPixVersion     |unknown FlashPix version

This is going to mean translators are going to have to fix lots of
translations in the short term, but the output will be nicer in
the long term. I'll send the new .pot file to the translators right away
to give them lots of time to update translations before the next release.

>>> Dan