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From: R. Halevi
Subject: Case significance
Date: 19 Tammuz 5781
Subject: A question of letters
I have been considering a question that may seem trivial but has implications for our specification.
In scribal tradition, the form of a letter matters. A kaf and a bet differ by a stroke. A dalet and a resh differ by a corner. A Torah scroll with a misformed letter may be invalid. The graphic shape carries meaning.
Our specification uses Latin characters. These characters have two cases: uppercase and lowercase. The question is whether this distinction should carry meaning for us.
In Hebrew, we do not have uppercase and lowercase in the Latin sense. But we do have traditions of emphasis: larger letters, smaller letters, crowned letters. The scribal tradition teaches that visual form is never merely decorative.
Should K and k be the same code or different codes?
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