A recurring problem I can’t solve directly using the existing Hugo template functions is to convert i18n values (or in general, any predefined strings) to sentence case.
Consider the following translations (for simplicity as a table):
| i18n key | en | de | fr |
|---|---|---|---|
evoting |
e-voting | E-Voting | vote électronique |
I’d like to be able to use the translation above as-is (e.g. for use in sentences) as well as with the first letter uppercased (e.g. for use in titles).
The existing functions title and humanize both don’t yield sentence case:
| expr | en | de | fr |
|---|---|---|---|
i18n "evoting" | title |
E-Voting | E-Voting | Vote Électronique |
i18n "evoting" | humanize |
E voting | E voting | Vote électronique |
I know I can resort to a partial as a kind of custom function to implement what I want. A one-liner is enough:
{{ print (slicestr . 0 1 | upper) (slicestr . 1) -}}
When saved as e.g. layouts/partials/upper1st.html, I can then use {{ i18n "evoting" | partial "upper1st" }} to convert the above translation to sentence case.
But since this is such a basic task, I would wish for a dedicated template function to do this, say sentencify, instead of having to rely on a partial.
Anyone feels the same? Any chance this could be added to Hugo?