On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 09:00:10 -0700, Tom Brennan wrote:

>Just wondering... Is the reason for this because upper case may be
>easier to read for folks who's first language is something other than
>English?
>
It could be worse than that.  For example:
    
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_ibm_i_71/nls/rbagsinvariantcharset.htm

    With only a few exceptions, each EBCDIC code page contains a common set of 
graphic
    characters. Within an encoding scheme, the common characters can be found 
at the
    same code points. The following EBCDIC code pages are exceptions:

 o  EBCDIC code page 290 has Katakana characters at the code points where 
lowercase
    a through z are in the invariant character set ... .

-- gil

----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Reply via email to