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# Capitalisation

What should you do about capitals that you see in the English source translations? You will notice that English makes use of Title Case:

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What do you do in your language?

## Choosing your style

The first thing to remember is that you do not need to slavishly follow English title case. By all means if your language follows this convention then use it. But if is doens’t then please use the normal case style used in your language.

## Starting capitals or the lack thereof

You will notice that certain sentences do not start with a capital. Try to match these capitals as they are often done for a reason. Sometimes they represent phrases that will be joined at runtime (this is a bad practice and should be reported to the programmer for correction)

To check your staring capitals use pofilter

    pofilter -t startcaps input output

## What to do with 'OK'

In English the `OK` or affirmative button is all in capitals. It is thus tempting to provide a fully capitalised translation in Xhosa that woul dbe `KULUNGILE`. But this looks strange. Rather abandon the English capitals and use normal capitalisation for your translation ie `Kulungile`