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By the way, did the Romans have lowercase letters (you mention that in Roman Number decoding)?
--[[User:Walterpachl|Walterpachl]] 19:01, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
: Yes, the Romans had lowercase letters. A papyri written in Latin from Herculaneum dating before 79 CE was found using lowercase letters '''a''', '''b''', '''d''', '''h''', '''p''', and '''r''' (as per Wikipedia). At one point, when using lowercase Roman numerals, "they" started using a lowercase '''j''' instead of an '''i''' so the reader could more easily distinguish the end of the Roman numeral. Think what would ''ci'', ''cii'', ''vi'' (Latin ablative singular of ''vis''), ''di'' (Latin irregular masculine plural of deus [diety]), ''lii'', ''mi'' (as in the 7-note muscial scale, from the 1st verse of the Latin hymm Ut queant laxis), ''xi'' (name of a Greek letter) ... would look like in a Roman text. Boy, this paragraph is a hodge-podge. It needs a kitchen sink thrown in. Maybe a tune-a-fish. Perhaps some (Roman) scholar could add a few words here --- and I don't mean any long-dead scholars. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] 20:09, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
: By the way, the above REXX example could be re-written without the need for a PROCEDURE, a Latin alphabet literal string, or temporary variables (along with some appropriate comments explaining the three steps performed):
<lang rexx>uppercase: return translate(changstr("ß",translate(arg(1),'ÄÖÜ',"äöü"),'SS'))
</lang>
Of course, if one wanted to break up the complex instruction, then a local (temporary) variable would be needed, along with a PROCEDURE statement. But the Latin alphabet literal isn't needed. I wonder how those German characters would translate on various codepages. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] 20:09, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
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