[Gllug] Government Gateway
- Tethys
tethys at gmail.com
Wed Jan 28 20:08:29 UTC 2009
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:57 PM, t.clarke <tim at seacon.co.uk> wrote:
> 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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