Calligraphic styles in Arabic (and other languages using the Arabic script) are more akin to fonts in western scripts. Letters do change shapes based on the context i.e. standing alone, at the beginning, middle or end of a word but that's nothing like upper / lower case. Shape of a letter does not change when a letter is the first one in a sentence or is a proper name.
MKK On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 17:58:54 -0600, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> wrote: >On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 23:19:09 +0000, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: > >>I don't happen to know of any language whose orthography has complex >>upper-lower case correlations, but it's an intriguing idea. >> >See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_calligraphy > >>Meanwhile--aside from making students miserable with arcane spelling >>rules--case manipulation seems more useful for obscuring passwords than for >>any technical transparency. >> >But: https://xkcd.com/936/ > "To anyone who understands information theory and security and is in an > infuriating > argument with someone who does not (possibly involving mixed case), I > sincerely > apologize." > >-- gil > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
