Lower to Upper Case Equivalences

This topic applies to languages that contain upper and lower case characters.

To set upper and lower case equivalences and to enter alphabetic characters unique to your languages do the following:

In the Edit menu click on Preferences.

Adapt It displays the Preferences dialog.
In the Preference dialog, click the Case tab.

Adapt It displays the Case dialog.
Read the explanation in the dialog.
Add any necessary characters in the one or more of the columns using regular or standard keyboards, software, or control characters.
Scroll down using the scroll bar on the right until the command buttons appear at the bottom of the screen.
Use the buttons at the bottom of the screen to perform any required operations.
- Clear Source List (or Target or Gloss) removes all of the characters in the Source (or Target or Gloss) column.
- Set English Equivalences restores the default English character set into the column above the button.
- Copy to Target List (or Gloss or Source) copies the character set in the column above the button to the designated column.
- Use Automatic Capitalization tells Adapt It to follow the capitalization found in the source language. If you turn this option on, you do not have to type in word-initial capital letters in the target language. This button also tells Adapt It to store the word in lower case form into the knowledge base only once. See Automatic capitalization for more information.
Click OK to close the dialog.

The tables can be empty if neither language requires upper and lower case.
If Adapt It detects a problem with the capitalization it provides Automatic Capitalization warning messages.
The sets of characters in each list do not have to follow the same alphabetical sequence. However, you do need to enter all possible pairs of characters for each language into the lists.
Turning Automatic Capitalization on and off may result in some additional entries in the knowledge base. For example, one source text word might have a target entry with an initial capital character and another that is entirely lower case. This condition does not cause any problems with the knowledge base. In fact, in some cases maybe useful. See Consistency checking.