Re: Character classifications

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From: Clive D.W. Feather
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 22:58

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In article <814819779snz@soliton.demon.co.uk>,
Ian Cargill  <ian@soliton.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> By my reading of this, a character could be both upper-case and 
> lower-case at the same time.  Questions are:
> 1. Am I missing something?

I don't believe so.

> 2. Is this deliberate?  I wouldn't have thought any language 
>   would have characters which are both upper and lower case. 

Suppose some characters of a language are identical in both cases, while
others are not. Then why not have the former be both upper and lower ?

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Subject: Re: Character classifications
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 22:58:51 GMT
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