What is upper case and lower case?

Answer 1

Upper and lower case is a reference to the way Typesetters store their letters. Capital letters were stored in the Upper drawers and the regular letters in the lower drawers. Hence, if they requested an Upper case "L" it meant they wanted a capital "L".

Answer 2

Capital and small letters. the distinction goes back to the Caroline ( period of Charlemagne- Charles the Great) Renaissance and thus antedates typewriters by centuries. Upper and lower case, probably from positions of type boxes for printing presses.

Answer 3

Back in the days of letterpress printing, there was something called the California job case that held the metal letters for the printing press. The capital letters were in the "upper case" and the non-capitalized letters were in the "lower case" hence the name.

Answer 4

Because originally, text was all hand-written. People used to draw lines on paper to make sure the letters were written in straight lines. All capital letters are written above the horizontal line - while some lower case letters 'fall' below the line (such as g, y, j etc)

Answer 5

All lower case letters came from upper case forms. Some lower case forms didnt evolve to look different from their upper case origins.

Answer 6

Upper

Answer 7

C# can represent

letters, lower case letters and considerable variety of special symbols every character has a corresponding integer representation. The set of characters a computer uses and the corresponding integer representations for those characters is called that computer's character set. Y can indicate a character value in a program simply by enclosing that character in a single quotes, as with 'A'.