22 Nov
2007
22 Nov
'07
12:46 a.m.
der Mouse wrote:
Actually all my TTY keyboardsd have shift keys. Of course some of them
are labeleld 'LETTERS' and ''FIGURES' :-)
But having a shift key doesn't mean the keyboard will send lower-case
letters. The shift key might be used only to get things like the symbols
over the digit keys, and letter keys may be sent in upper case whether
the shift key is pressed or not. That ITT I mentioned in the last message
was like that before I added the modification.
-tony
I don't recall seeing a computer keyboard
that *is* lowercase, ever.
Modern keyboards are generally connected to systems that map alphabetic
keystrokes to uppercase and lowercase depending on other state, and
have keys ("Shift") designed to provide that state, but the keyboards
themselves have only one case of alphabetic key, and in every case I
can recall seeing, that case is upper.
I stand corrected ... the only keyboard without a shift key I have seen
is a TTY's.