On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 23:19:09 +0000, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: >I don't happen to know of any language whose orthography has complex >upper-lower case correlations, but it's an intriguing idea. > See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_calligraphy
>Meanwhile--aside from making students miserable with arcane spelling >rules--case manipulation seems more useful for obscuring passwords than for >any technical transparency. > But: https://xkcd.com/936/ "To anyone who understands information theory and security and is in an infuriating argument with someone who does not (possibly involving mixed case), I sincerely apologize." -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
