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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Case sensitivity (was Re: no title)
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 19:06:41 +0000 (UTC)
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tmoran@acm.org wrote:
: With the coming of handwriting recognition shouldn't case sensitivity
: logically be extended to consider a letter "A" in lower case OEM font
: different from not only "A" in upper case OEM font, but also different
: from cursive script, Gothic, etc?  Just visualize what a program might
: look like.

No need to run, because, historically, the small and capital letters
of the Latin alphabet in Europe had originally evolved from what could
be considered different ways of handwriting, using a non-ASCII alphabet
with only one representation for each character (Uncial).
See e.g.  http://allchin.org/alcuin.html

There Are Still People Who Think that Capital Letters At Very Simplistically
Determined Positions In Words Are Their Best Use...

Georg,
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