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The Caps Lock key on a PC keyboard with US keyboard layout (near upper-left corner, below the Tab key and above the left Shift key). Caps Lock (⇪ Caps Lock) is a button on a computer keyboard that causes all letters of bicameral scripts to be generated in capital letters.
Reduce court decisions from all caps. Write Roe v. Wade, even though the decision as issued reads ROE v. WADE. [1] Reduce proclamations, such as those for the Medal of Honor, from all capitals. Reduce text written in all capitals in trademarks – see WP:Manual of Style/Trademarks.
Alternating caps, [1] also known as studly caps [a], sticky caps (where "caps" is short for capital letters), or spongecase (in reference to the "Mocking Spongebob" internet meme) is a form of text notation in which the capitalization of letters varies by some pattern, or arbitrarily (often also omitting spaces between words and occasionally some letters).
Handwritten Cyrillic script Adyghe Latin alphabet, used between 1927 and 1938, was based on Latin script, but did not have capital letters, being unicameral (small caps include ᴀ, ʙ, ᴣ, ʀ, ⱪ, ᴘ, and . A minority of writing systems use two separate cases. Such writing systems are called bicameral scripts.
Another approach is to indicate word boundaries using medial capitalization, called "camelCase", "PascalCase", and many other names, thus respectively rendering "two words" as "twoWords" or "TwoWords". This convention is commonly used in Pascal, Java, C#, and Visual Basic.
In typography, text or font in all caps (short for "all capitals") contains capital letters without any lowercase letters. For example: THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG. All-caps text can be seen in legal documents, advertisements, newspaper headlines, and the titles on book covers.
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Normal capitalization rules apply with respect to Shift and Caps Lock keys. For example, to enter "Ź", one can type Shift+AltGr+X with Caps Lock off, or turn on Caps Lock and type AltGr+X. Both ANSI [18] and ISO [19] mechanical layouts are common sights, and even some non-standard [20] mechanical layouts are in use.