smash case
To lose or obliterate the uppercase/lowercase distinction in text input. “MS-DOS will automatically smash case in the names of all the files you create.” Compare fold case.
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To lose or obliterate the uppercase/lowercase distinction in text input. “MS-DOS will automatically smash case in the names of all the files you create.” Compare fold case.
Text sometimes exhibits case sensitivity, that is, words can differ in meaning based on the differing use of uppercase and lowercase letters. Words with capital letters don't always have the same meaning as words with lowercase letters. For example, Bill is the name of former US president (Clinton) who signs a bill (which is a proposed law put before a legislature).
When a computer compares two words to decide whether they are equal, it may or may not consider words equal which only differ in case.
This is relevant e.g. with regard to:
Some computer languages are case sensitive (Java, [[C++]], C and XML) while others are case insensitive (i.e. not case sensitive), for example most BASICs (an exception being BBC BASIC) and Pascal. There are also languages, such as Haskell and Prolog, in which the capitalization of an identifier encodes information about its semantics.
Often, computer passwords are case sensitive and computer user names are not, which can be confusing for the inexperienced user. Passwords are often made case sensitive to make them harder to guess, whereas making usernames harder to guess or remember is not an advantage.
It takes more work for a program to ignore case when comparing data, depending on the data being compared. Usually it suffices
in text coded in character sets like
Case insensitive operations are sometimes said to fold case, from the idea of folding the character code table so that upper and lower case letters coincide. The alternative smash case is more likely to be used by someone who considers this behaviour a misfeature or in cases where one case is actually permanently converted to the other.
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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - afhængig af hvert enkelt tilfælde
Français (French)
adj. - (Comput, Imprim) sensible/actif à la casse
Deutsch (German)
adj. - (Comp.) case-sensitive, differenziert zwischen Groß-/Kleinschreibung, verarbeitet Inhalte nach Groß-/Kleinschreibung unterschiedlich
Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - (Η/Υ) ανάλογος με τον τύπο χαρακτήρων
Español (Spanish)
adj. - que distingue letras mayúsculas de minúsculas
Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - som gör skillnad på stora och små bokstäver
中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
有大小写之分的
中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 有大小寫之分的
한국어 (Korean)
adj. - (컴퓨터) 검색 시 대문자와 소문자 사이에 차이를 보이는
العربيه (Arabic)
(صفه) استعمال أحرف كبيرة أو صغيرة يغير المعنى
עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - מבחינה בין אותיות גדולות וקטנות באנגלית (תוכנת מחשב או פקודה מסוימת), מטופל באופן שונה לפי היותו כתוב באותיות קטנות או גדולות (קלט)
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