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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/17/2020 6:41 AM, abrahamgross---
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Microsoft Word does a very good job auto capitalizing, so the same internal dictionary </pre>
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<p>Which is it, in German: "weg" or "Weg" ?</p>
<p>Two simple words, but which one gets capitalized?</p>
<p>Hint, the one used as a noun in the sentence. Now, how do you do
that with a dictionary? Or in a font?</p>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">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 <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp"><duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp></a>:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">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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