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  2. Small caps - Wikipedia

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    Small caps, petite caps and italic used for emphasis True small caps (top), compared with scaled small caps (bottom), generated by OpenOffice.org Writer. 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]

  3. Typesetting - Wikipedia

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    Computers excel at automatically typesetting and correcting documents. [7] Character-by-character, computer-aided phototypesetting was, in turn, rapidly rendered obsolete in the 1980s by fully digital systems employing a raster image processor to render an entire page to a single high-resolution digital image , now known as imagesetting.

  4. Help:Entering special characters - Wikipedia

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    Most commonly they convert it to an encoding native to the platform (whilst the NT line of Windows is internally UCS-2LE—2 Byte subset of UTF-16—it has a complete duplicate set of APIs in the Windows ANSI code page and many older apps tend to use these, especially for things like edit boxes). Then they let the user edit it using a standard ...

  5. List of Unicode characters - Wikipedia

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    The x must be lowercase in XML documents. The nnnn or hhhh may be any number of digits and may include leading zeros. The hhhh may mix uppercase and lowercase, though uppercase is the usual style. In contrast, a character entity reference refers to a character by the name of an entity which has the desired character as its replacement text.

  6. Case sensitivity - Wikipedia

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    The lowercase "a" and uppercase "A" are the two case variants of the first letter in the English alphabet.. In computers, case sensitivity defines whether uppercase and lowercase letters are treated as distinct (case-sensitive) or equivalent (case-insensitive).

  7. UTF-8 - Wikipedia

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    It may though require the user to change options from the normal settings, or may require a BOM (byte-order mark) as the first character to read the file. Examples of software supporting UTF-8 include Microsoft Word, [34] [35] [36] Microsoft Excel (2016 and later), [37] [38] Google Drive, LibreOffice and most databases.

  8. Alt code - Wikipedia

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    On IBM PC compatible personal computers from the 1980s, the BIOS allowed the user to hold down the Alt key and type a decimal number on the keypad. It would place the corresponding code into the keyboard buffer so that it would look (almost) as if the code had been entered by a single keystroke.

  9. Unicode subscripts and superscripts - Wikipedia

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    Since these characters appear in different Unicode ranges, they may not appear to be the same size or position due to font substitution by the browser. Shaded cells mark small capitals that are not very distinct from minuscules, and Greek letters that are indistinguishable from Latin, and so would not be expected to be supported by Unicode.