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So, I think the rules should be more explicit here.

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Quoting Voltaire53:

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I weep for the state of education in your country as well as my own then...

As if capitalization of titles is something that everyone should know, let alone being taught at school 

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From two forum posts I made in an other forum exactly a year ago:

"For non-English titles, use capitalization rules common to the language of the title. "Tout va bien" is correctly capitalized. "Tout Va Bien" is not"

I would like to change this rule into:

"When entering translated non-English titles, use the capitalization used on the Cover. For example: "De Prins van Egypte". If however this is an original non-English title or it is fully written in upper or lower case characters, use the capitalization rules common to the language of the title. For example: "Tout va bien" is correctly capitalized. "Tout Va Bien" is not."

I mean there are quite a few Movies out here (The Netherlands), mainly Animations and other movies suitable for Kids, of which the Distributors have translated the Title into Dutch not following the Dutch spelling rules, but merely copying the capitalization of the English Title. A lot of users (the majority) want them the way they are printed on the cover and not the way they become after using the Dutch spelling rules, because it's a kind of standard in our movie-business to do so.

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From two forum posts I made in an other forum exactly a year ago:

"For non-English titles, use capitalization rules common to the language of the title. "Tout va bien" is correctly capitalized. "Tout Va Bien" is not"

I would like to change this rule into:

"When entering translated non-English titles, use the capitalization used on the Cover. For example: "De Prins van Egypte". If however this is an original non-English title or it is fully written in upper or lower case characters, use the capitalization rules common to the language of the title. For example: "Tout va bien" is correctly capitalized. "Tout Va Bien" is not."

I mean there are quite a few Movies out here (The Netherlands), mainly Animations and other movies suitable for Kids, of which the Distributors have translated the Title into Dutch not following the Dutch spelling rules, but merely copying the capitalization of the English Title. A lot of users (the majority) want them the way they are printed on the cover and not the way they become after using the Dutch spelling rules, because it's a kind of standard in our movie-business to do so.

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The problem with capitalization of Romance Language Titles is that there are several different accepted sets of rules used, and different people use different methods.  For example, see here: 

http://french.about.com/library/writing/bl-capitalizationoftitles.htm

method I (capitalize the first word, and also basically up to the first noun) is the one I learned when I studied French, but some people here only capitalize the first word no matter what.  Personally I think a consensus needs to be reached and decided upon for the rules.