Re:Why the Apple II Didn’t Support Lowercase Letters
by bonzini on Thursday September 10, 2020 @02:05PM
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Some argue that mixed case texts are more readable because the ascenders and descenders provide "synchronization points" for our eyes in scanning text. Also (and less controversially) uppercase is larger so it is slower to read it, because there are more pauses to move your eyes to the beginning of the next line.
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Re:Why the Apple II Didn’t Support Lowercase Letters
by ars on Thursday September 10, 2020 @08:06PM
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There are plenty of languages without upper and lowercase, I've never heard of them being slower to read.
Re:Why the Apple II Didn’t Support Lowercase Letters
by bonzini on Friday September 11, 2020 @02:08AM
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Yes, that's why the first point is more controversial. But the second is interesting: alphabets that lack lowercase, like Korean hangul, have bigger characters but they pack more information into each of them.