• 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Wild to me that text editors don’t have a caps button next to bold or italics that changes highlighted text to upper/lowercase

    • invertedspear@lemm.ee
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      4 hours ago

      A capital and lower case letters are two completely different letters/codes. Bold, italics, underline, etc are all just visual styling applied to those characters. This is not so important of a distinction if you are limiting to one specific character set, but gets a lot more difficult when you start talking about other languages and their character sets. The control would have to know which character set it was operating on and have a map of what its corresponding cap/lower character code is.

      In short, that control isn’t common because that juice isn’t usually worth the squeeze.

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    8 hours ago

    Feel like there’s some social commentary here.