The characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case.
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In what does the distinction between capital and lower-case letter consist?
2
The numeral 1, the lower-case letter l, the exclamation mark!
3
Entries for such characters begin with a lower- case letter.
4
In the earlier forms the lower-case letters were rough and uncouth, much resembling the Gothic forms.
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For example, the program might take the user's name and try it in both upper- and lower-case letters.