On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 09:00:10 -0700, Tom Brennan wrote:
>Just wondering... Is the reason for this because upper case may be
>easier to read for folks who's first language is something other than
>English?
>
It could be worse than that. For example:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_ibm_i_71/nls/rbagsinvariantcharset.htm
With only a few exceptions, each EBCDIC code page contains a common set of
graphic
characters. Within an encoding scheme, the common characters can be found
at the
same code points. The following EBCDIC code pages are exceptions:
o EBCDIC code page 290 has Katakana characters at the code points where
lowercase
a through z are in the invariant character set ... .
-- gil
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