Italics get used to express important semantic meaning, so unicode should support them

[abrahamgross at disroot.org]

Microsoft Word does a very good job auto capitalizing, so the same internal dictionary that Word uses can also be used by OpenType to shape lowercase into uppercase. for the edge cases where you want uppercase when it doesn't automatically do it, you can use opentype alternate variants, or some other <captial letter goes here> char (like the joiners or something)

Dec 17, 2020 3:22:29 AM Martin J. Dürst <duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp>:

> Neither something like JOINERS, nor context work as well for the upper case / lower case distinction, and that's why it's fair to say that one reason for encoding this distinction (in Unicode as well as in many predecessor encodings) is that the distinction is learned in school and made in handwriting.
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