German Language Localization

German Language Localization
10 June 2008

The Support Dept. has received enquiries as to our official policy regarding the first letter capitalization of personal pronouns in the German language versions of our Entropia website and Entropia client software. We have based our choice of using a predominately informal language style on the following directives:

In 1996, a "Rechtschreibreform" brought several new rules regarding spelling, grammar, hyphenation, etc of the German language. This Rechtschreibreform has been reviewed, and is now mandatory (as of 01.08.2006). According to the Rechtschreibreform, the formal form of addressing people (Sie, Ihr, etc) is still written with a first letter capital (this formal form is used for the EULA and other agreements, as the informal form would have been very unusual), while the informal form (du, euer) is written with a lower case first letter in all other cases.

We will naturally continue to monitor customer feedback for these and other localization issues in order to provide the best service possible.

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