# Capitalized words in titles got turned into lowercase when not English
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/capitalized-words-in-titles-got-turned-into-lowercase-when-not-english/68967
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [29 augustus 2017 om 05:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/capitalized-words-in-titles-got-turned-into-lowercase-when-not-english/68967 "2017-08-29T05:58:03Z")
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### Author:  [@schungx](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schungx)
#### Post date: [29 augustus 2017 om 05:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/capitalized-words-in-titles-got-turned-into-lowercase-when-not-english/68967/1 "2017-08-29T05:58:03Z")
I’ve hit on a strange problem.
The titles of topics, if they include non-English characters (e.g. CJK), all-capitalized English words get turned into lower-case, except for the first letter which is upper-case.
This does not happen in English titles.
For example:
> PPT: This is a POWERPOINT presentation
is not affected, but:
> PPT: 這是POWERPOINT報表
gets turned into
> Ppt: 這是powerpoint報表
It does not seem to affect words that are mix-casing.
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### Author:  [@schungx](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schungx)
#### Post date: [29 augustus 2017 om 06:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/capitalized-words-in-titles-got-turned-into-lowercase-when-not-english/68967/2 "2017-08-29T06:07:21Z")
OK, found this:
> [@CAPITOL in leading word in title is humanizes incorrectly](https://meta.discourse.org/t/capitol-in-leading-word-in-title-is-humanizes-incorrectly/30050):
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> When I create a post with a title like ‘NASA’ it humanizes it to ‘Nasa’ and won’t let me change it (editing it to ‘NASA’ still reverts it to the humanized form). This seems to only happen when I reduce the number of required characters for a title in Settings.
So, I tried turning off `tittle prettify`, but then it rejects all my CJK titles with all-caps English words. If I change those all-caps English words into mix-caps, then it is accepted.
The rejection says: `Title seems unclear, is it a complete sentence?`
If I change even one letter in the all-caps word into lower-case, then suddenly it seems to be a complete sentence to the system. 😅
**SUGGESTION** : When a title contains more non-English letters than English letters, it is most likely a foreign language. In that case, you really should be by-passing most of the English-based rules.
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### Author:  [@schungx](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schungx)
#### Post date: [29 augustus 2017 om 06:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/capitalized-words-in-titles-got-turned-into-lowercase-when-not-english/68967/3 "2017-08-29T06:15:21Z")
No worries. Found this:
> [@How to turn off a checker for "Title seems unclear, is it a complete sentence?"](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-turn-off-a-checker-for-title-seems-unclear-is-it-a-complete-sentence/55070):
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> Even ehought I put a title, I am getting this message: Perhaps, it’s because I am using Korean in the title. How can I turn off the checker? I set “title min entropy” to 0, but I still get this error message. FYI, the title I used is “r0.12 리비전 작업 진행 사항을 잠시 공유해봅니다.” (in Korean).
Turns out that the titles I entered have CJK characters, symbols and all-caps words. Thus trapped under this rule.
Again, for titles with a majority of non-English letters, this really should be turned off, because those English letters are probably markers, ID’s, model names, and other symbols.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [8 juni 2024 om 12:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/capitalized-words-in-titles-got-turned-into-lowercase-when-not-english/68967/4 "2024-06-08T12:44:25Z")
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