Localization Issue with Abandoned Ascent Civilization

[Fidchel]

There appears to be a bit of confusion in the English version of Archive's dialogue where it is unclear if the civilization associated with The Abandoned Ascent in Occult Crescent was one of the twelve city-states of the Fifth Astral Era. German, French, and Japanese all seem to agree that it was included, as do the related English entries in the Occult Record, but the following dialogue from the quest "Past and Crescent" implies it was separate:

Ketenramm: I've never heard tell of this “Karnak.” Was it another civilization that flourished in the Fifth Astral Era?
Archive: Indeed. Though they rivaled the twelve city-states in terms of prestige and power, neither they nor their history survived the ages. A truly lamentable end.

Perhaps it should be "other eleven city-states" instead, as seems to be the case in the French version?

[Kharn]

Would it be okay to also use this thread for other Occult Crescent Localization issues too? Because Jeffroy's UI dialogue when entering the instance lists "Occult Crescent: south horn." It's the only instance of 'South Horn' being lowercase in the entire experience, seems like a pretty glaring typo to encounter daily.

[Zero-ELEC]

Would it be okay to also use this thread for other Occult Crescent Localization issues too? Because Jeffroy's UI dialogue when entering the instance lists "Occult Crescent: south horn." It's the only instance of 'South Horn' being lowercase in the entire experience, seems like a pretty glaring typo to encounter daily.

That's not a typo or localisation issue; whenever people refer to it in sentence it is always "south horn", all lower case. It's not the name of a place, it's a description. The menu option is simply in sentence case. The localisation is very particular about capitalisation of things that aren't proper names when not in title case, you can also discover this by emoting at any character that has a name that is descriptive, for example.

Words over characters heads (their "names"), duty titles in duty menus, field and location names in teleport menus and notices, minion and mount names, and things of similar nature, are all depicted in title case. These can have different capitalisation in sentence case. See the outskirts being rendered "The Outskirts" when in the teleport menu, but being rendered "the outskirts" when characters talk about it. Or take a look at the Mogpendium next time there's an objective in places like "western Thanalan", or read a minion or mount description when they don't have proper nouns for names.

For example, observe this: The key item is an "elite Veteran Clan mark bill" as depicted in sentence case, but when hovered over it's an "Elite Veteran Clan Mark Bill" as depicted in title case.

[Kharn]

That's not a typo or localisation issue; whenever people refer to it in sentence it is always "south horn", all lower case. It's not the name of a place, it's a description. The menu option is simply in sentence case. The localisation is very particular about capitalisation of things that aren't proper names when not in title case, you can also discover this by emoting at any character that has a name that is descriptive, for example.

I probably should've been clearer on what I'm exactly referring to, but it's not the use of it in the actual character dialogue. I've no umbrage with "south horn" being lowercase in actual character spoken dialogue due to its descriptor of the crescent locale. I was probably too hyperbolic by saying "the entire instance" when I meant in the out-of-story UI experience specifically. Apologies!

Instead, I am referring to the UI dialogue/teleport menu that Jeffroy in the Phantom Village has when trying to access the actual zone instance—which you are referring to as being "title case" mechanically speaking in reference to duty menus. It is not title case in this instance. I'm aware you also mentioned that the menu option is in sentence case, but does this menu not also count as a field/location name in a teleport menu? That's what feels odd to me visually. Instance characters for Field Operations in previous expansions that utilize the same type of menu, like Rodney (Eureka Anemos) have the text in title case. I recognize Bozja doesn't have this due to a different format in phrasing, but "Occult Crescent: south horn" also doesn't feel like the same type of descriptive title as "The Bozja southern front" for Bozja, but rather a subtitle (which is typical grammatically to be capitalized for title names that come after a colon or dash in a name) due to its formatting.

Therefore, it'd visually look better to be "Occult Crescent: South Horn" for the menu in my opinion. Similar to how south horn is capitalized in the other menus, like the map.

Edit: It is also capitalized when leaving the duty instance, which further makes me believe it should be while entering it.

[Zero-ELEC]

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The thing is when there's multiple options in a menu when speaking to an NPC (in "what would you like to say?"/"what would you like to do?" type things) the options tend to be sentences, which is the case here; your character is either journeying to the south horn, asking for more information, reviewing their own knowledge (opening the help menu), or reviewing their phantom jobs (opening the phantom job menu).

Honestly if anything, I'd say it's weird that the leaving menu depicts the duty as "the Occult Crescent: South Horn", since when leaving non-exploratory missions/field operations/adventuring forays duties the question is rendered in sentence case (e.g. "Leave duty?").

Regardless, I guess depending on which current of English language rules you follow, you might capitalise the first word after a colon, but I don't think that's the standard. From what I understand, American English can capitalise after the colon but does not tend to, while British and Commonwealth English does not do that, as a rule, unless it's a proper noun. Would you it look better/more appropriate if it it were written "Journey to the Occult Crescent's south horn." or "Journey to the Occult Crescent: South horn."?

[Rongway]

Perhaps it should be "other eleven city-states" instead, as seems to be the case in the French version?

It now says "the other city-states".