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I disagree. It's really weird that "I" and "i" are somehow the same character (but the former is used at the start of a sentence or when it's the entire word on
by SAI_Peregrinus 3y ago
I disagree. It's really weird that "I" and "i" are somehow the same character (but the former is used at the start of a sentence or when it's the entire word only), or that "מ" (U+05DE) and "ם" (U+05DD) are the same character but the latter is only used at the end of a word. They're visibly distinct! Only a minority of languages have multiple cases, most scripts are unicameral (having only one case).
- kergonath 3y agoI am not sure I follow. Are you advocating for doing away with capitals entirely?
- xmcqdpt2 3y agoi support this. capitals are basically useless anyway!
- SAI_Peregrinus 3y agoNo, I'm saying that case insensitivity is almost always a bad idea, especially as a default. It's useful (sometimes) for search, but even then not always what you want. Case often carries semantic information, it's not purely syntactic.