Unicase
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A unicase or unicameral
Most modern writing systems originated as unicase orthographies. The
A modern unicase version of the Latin alphabet was proposed in 1982 by Michael Mann and David Dalby, as a variation of the Niamey
While the International Phonetic Alphabet is not used for ordinary writing of any language, its inventory does not make a semantic case distinction, even though some of its letters resemble uppercase and lowercase pairs found in other alphabets.
Modern orthographies that lack a case distinction while using Latin characters include that used for the Saanich dialect in Canada, which uses majuscule letterforms save for a single suffix, and that used for palawa kani language in Tasmania, which uses only minuscule letterforms.[1]
Web typography
Unicase has been specified as a display variant in the CSS standard. For example, one can use the font-variant: unicase
property to render text as unicase in supported browsers.[2] The underlying OpenType specification is the unic
tag. Any given letter can be displayed as upper-case or lower-case according to the font design, unlike an all-caps display or use of small-caps for lower-case, but the same character is always displayed in that same case.[3]
Since only the presentation of the text is styled, no actual case transformation is applied and readers are still able to copy the original plain text from the webpage.
See also
- Alphabet 26
References
- ^ Harman, Kristyn (19 July 2018). "Explainer: How Tasmania's Aboriginal People Reclaimed a Language, Palawa kani". The Conversation. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
- W3Cstandards and drafts, 20 September 2018, retrieved 19 November 2023
- ^ "Registered features, u-z (OpenType 1.9)". Microsoft Learn—Typography. 9 December 2021. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
- Georgian Nuskhuri, Unicode 4.1.0, [1]