[Gllug] Government Gateway

[Riq]

I have not infrequently been asked to re-type 'digits'
where the original is alphanumeric.

Riq Willitts

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> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:57:00 +0000
> From: "t.clarke" <tim at seacon.co.uk>
> Subject: [Gllug] Government Gateway
> To: gllug at gllug.org.uk
> Message-ID: <tim-090128.19571911.15359 at seacon.co.uk>
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> Having recently received a new Government Gateway ID (and having been informed
> the new one is totally numeric, as are ALL new IDs being issued), it is quite
> interesting to see that the little ID Card helpully notes that the ID is
> 'not case sensitive'  !!
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> I never realised that there were upper and lower-case numerals; you learn
> something new every day.
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> Tim
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> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:08:29 +0000
> From: - Tethys <tethys at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] Government Gateway
> To: Greater London Linux User Group <gllug at gllug.org.uk>
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> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:57 PM, t.clarke <tim at seacon.co.uk> wrote:
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>> I never realised that there were upper and lower-case numerals; you learn
>> something new every day.
> 
> Your sarcasm is misplaced. Any decent typographer will tell you that
> there are indeed lower case numerals:
> 
> 	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_figures
> 
> Full details, as ever, can be found in Bringhurst. That said, since
> they are merely alternate glyphs for the same unicode code point, the
> concept of case insensitivity is meaningless here.
> 
> Tet
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