[Discuss] Capitalization

[John P. Murphy]

On Mar 12, 2008, at 9:30 AM, Tom Vogt wrote:

> John P. Murphy schrieb:
>> It occurs to me that many of the objectionable names I've seen are
>> simply a matter of capitalization (either no caps, all caps, or
>> CamelCase).  Would it be a pain to add a button that a player can
>> press to change their name to have proper capitalization, without
>> manual approval?  Just change the first character to uppercase, and
>> all the others to lowercase.   Many of the CamelCase names actually
>> work reasonably well if the capitalization is correct.
>>
>
> Having choosen such a name at all denotes having made a bad choice.  
> It's
> not the name alone, it's what it stands for.

If this were a game for native/fluent English speakers only, I'd  
agree with you.  But as a practical matter, an incorrectly  
capitalized name could stand for bad choices, typos, or poor English  
skills.

John