Why lowercase letters save data

Re:Why lowercase letters save data by Zanni on Saturday January 20, 2024 @02:46AM (#39065524)

For readability. Compare to Cyrillic, where lowercase letters are basically half-height uppercase letters, so everything looks like it's rendered in small caps (this is more true for handprinted lettering, but mostly true for typeset stuff too).

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Re:Why lowercase letters save data by wqweto on Saturday January 20, 2024 @04:07AM (#39065848)

Probably true for Russian cyrillic alphabet tradition but not so much for Bulgarian and other cyrillic ancestry where lowercase letters differ almost for every letter with few exceptions, no matter if handwritten, cursive, italic or normal.

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Re:Why lowercase letters save data by nekasrbenda on Saturday January 20, 2024 @02:59AM (#39065577)

It's why God invented cursive.

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Re:Why lowercase letters save data by TRiG_Ireland on Saturday January 20, 2024 @05:44PM (#39073244)

Have you seen Cyrillic cursive?

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