[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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