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Improvements to Danish translation & information#208

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@mikini mikini commented Mar 9, 2026

  • reword some paragraphs for clearness and better fluency

  • remove some some extraneous words

  • fix some wrong tenses

  • clean up some syntax

  • change name of Danish in i18 list; in Danish the language itself
    "dansk" is not capitalized

  • add Danish Ombudsman and competition authority

mikini added 3 commits March 9, 2026 23:54
* reword some paragraphs for clearness and better fluency
* remove some some extraneous words
* fix some wrong tenses
* clean up some syntax

* change name of Danish in i18 list; in Danish the language itself
  "dansk" is not capitalized
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marcprux commented Mar 9, 2026

Thank you!

@marcprux marcprux merged commit e483712 into keepandroidopen:main Mar 9, 2026
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marcprux commented Mar 9, 2026

change name of Danish in i18 list; in Danish the language itself "dansk" is not capitalized

I'm curious about this. Wikipedia's language selection lists it as "Dansk", and I find the lower-casing "dansk" a bit discontiguous with the other languages listed in the https://keepandroidopen.org header around it. Is there precedent for other the portrayals of the language's capitalization mode on other major International-focused sites?

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mikini commented Mar 10, 2026

Hmm, yeah, Wikipedia seem to just capitalize everything in their listings.
But the enwiki article about Danish has it quite clear that the language is called "dansk" (and I see that even dawiki messes it up in the infobox... EDIT: now fixed).

Wiktionary has a list in the same style as the one you snapped on the non-language specific main page which is wrong, but actually does it right on the en front page which lists languages in both their own and English terms (and there are plenty which doesn't capitalize if that is to be trusted);
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Wikidata also has it mapped as "dansk" in "native label" statement (P1705) which even has a reference to the Unicode CLDR list of language names in Danish, which luckily also lists the term for the "da" language as "dansk".
I guess that is one of the most authoritative references one could end up with ;).

But if you find it visually appalling I have no objections against capitalizing it again, few Danes will probably even notice. And none of the other language contributors seems to have bothered either (many of the current available languages should be lower if Wiktionary is right). My brain just notices, knowing it is incorrect ;).

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Thanks for the thoughtful and informative response! I'll leave it the way it is for now (decapitalized), but if other people raise it as an issue I may revert to the capitalized form.

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