7 Oct
2007
7 Oct
'07
2:40 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 7 Oct 2007 at 16:10, William Donzelli wrote:
Presumably a lot is 16-bit these days, given that a lot of systems have to
operate in a global environment. I suspect there's a lot of case conversion
goes on in systems though, partly for efficiency (i.e. when searching for
data), and partly because so many people seem to have trouble grasping the
concept of mixed cases :-)
cheers
Jules
The same 1964 (I think) report states that IBM
was getting concerned
about the possibility of the alphanumeric character set expanding with
upper and lower case, symbols, etc..
And yet, many of my bills still arrive as all upper-case. And I'll
wager that most of that data is stored as 8-bit characters. Go
figure.