Re: Any other Italians on Unicode List? (was RE: French annotated Cha

From: Mark Davis (markdavis@ispchannel.com)
Date: Wed Jul 05 2000 - 11:56:42 EDT


> *1: i termini inglesi "uppercase" e "lowercase" fanno riferimento alla
> tradizionale posizione dei tipi di piombo nella cassetta per la composizione
> tipografica: maiuscole sopra e minuscole sotto. (Ma quanti capirebbero il
> riferimento?)

Very few native speakers know that they derive from actual physical cases. Another synonym for titlecase is "initial-capitals". "Capitalized" is also used, but doesn't distinguish between all capitals and initial capitals.

Mark



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