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Alternating caps are typically used to display mockery in text messages. [1] The randomized capitalization leads to the flow of words being broken, making it harder for the text to be read as it disrupts word identification even when the size of the letters is the same as in uppercase or lowercase. [5][9] Unlike the use of all-lowercase letters ...
With the adoption of letters from the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) in various national alphabets, letter case forms have been developed. This usually means capital (uppercase) forms were developed, but in the case of the glottal stop ʔ, both uppercase Ɂ and lowercase ɂ are used. The adoption of IPA letters has been particularly ...
In typography, small caps (short for small capitals) are characters typeset with glyphs that resemble uppercase letters but reduced in height and weight close to the surrounding lowercase letters or text figures. [1] This is technically not a case-transformation, but a substitution of glyphs, although the effect is often approximated by case ...
There are two code points in Unicode: U+00DF ß LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S; U+1E9E ẞ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S; In modern browsers, lowercase "ß" will be converted to "SS" when the element containing it is set to uppercase using text-transform: uppercase in Cascading Style Sheets.
ASCII (/ ˈæskiː / ⓘ ASS-kee), [3]: 6 an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices.
Keyboard of a German manual typewriter (early 20th century), with Shift keys labelled "Umschalter" ("switch") Keyboard symbol for "Level 2 Select" (i.e. "Shift") The keyboard symbol for the Shift key (which is called Level 2 Select key in the international standard series ISO/IEC 9995) is given in ISO/IEC 9995-7 as symbol 1, and in ISO 7000 “Graphical symbols for use on equipment” as a ...
Small capital J: Uralic Phonetic Alphabet [2] K: Kelvin sign: Kelvin unit of measure temperature; character decomposition is a capital K ᴋ: Small capital K: Uralic Phonetic Alphabet [2] Ʞ ʞ: Turned K: IPA (proposed symbol for velar click; withdrawn 1970 as articulation judged impossible) 𝼃 Reversed k: ExtIPA oraldorsal stop [12 ...
Letter case. The lower-case "a" and upper-case "A" are the two case variants of the first letter in the English alphabet. Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (more formally majuscule) and smaller lowercase (more formally minuscule) in the written representation of certain languages. The ...