Questions tagged [uppercase]

Uppercase characters are capital letters.

Uppercase characters are capital letters: A, B, C, …

In ASCII, they are the characters in the range [A-Z]. But other characters (for instance accented characters like É, È, Ê, À, Î, Ä, Ù) are also considered uppercase.

The counterpart of is .


See also: Letter case on Wikipedia

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How do you set strings to uppercase / lowercase in Unicode?

This is mostly a theoretical question I'm just very curious about. (I'm not trying to do this by coding it myself or anything, I'm not reinventing wheels.) My question is how the uppercase/lowercase table of equivalence works for Unicode. For…
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How to convert from lower to upper case in Sublime 3

Is there a shortcut or function for upper/lower-casing the selected text in Sublime 3?
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How to determine if a character is uppercase or lowercase in postgresql?

I have failed to find any function like isupper or islower in postgresql. What I actually need is to select all the records from a table, where one of the columns contains capitized (but not uppercase) words. That is, the first symbol of each word…
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Why Java Character.toUpperCase/toLowerCase has no Locale parameter like String.toUpperCase/toLowerCase

I am wondering that why Character.toUpperCase/toLowerCase has no Locale parameter like String.toUpperCase/toLowerCase. I have to first uppercase of a text that can be in Any language. I have 2 solutions: Use Character.toUpperCase String text =…
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Oracle SQLDeveloper Autocomplete in Lowercase (How about Uppercase)

I am currently using the latest Oracle sql developer. I just have one nuisance here. When I do auto-complete of table names or columns, they show up in lower case. As most people I do have coding guidelines in SQL statements and I usually want table…
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Why do upper case letters come before lower case letters in the ASCII table?

In one of my interview, the interviewer asked me why the upper case letters are before the lower case letters in ASCII table, I searched on google.com but found nothing, could anyone gave me the answer? Thx a lot!
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Unicode characters having asymmetric upper/lower case. Why?

Why do the following three characters have not symmetric toLower, toUpper results /** * Written in the Scala programming language, typed into the Scala REPL. * Results commented accordingly. */ /* Unicode Character 'LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP…
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Fastest way to extract uppercase characters in Java

I am currently working with DNA sequences in the form of strings where introns are in lowercase and exons in uppercase characters. The aim of the method is to retrieve the exons in the form of a String as fast as possible. Example of a sequence…
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Why uppercase isn't usual in URL

I've visited many sites that most of them used lowercase in URLs like stackoverflow.com/questions google.com/webmaster bing.com/news Why using uppercase isn't more prevalent? Is there a problem using uppercase in URL? Is this a programming language…
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How to make XCode templates connvert ___FILEBASENAMEASIDENTIFIER___ to uppercase

Quick question description. There is C header file template which has this code as a template: #ifndef ___FILEBASENAMEASIDENTIFIER_______FILEEXTENSION___ #define ___FILEBASENAMEASIDENTIFIER_______FILEEXTENSION___ #endif Logically it produces the…
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Converting CSV headers to be case insensitive in Ruby

I have a ruby import to DB process that checks header titles against an array called headers. As it stands right now, those headers must be typed exactly the same as they appear in the array. I would like for them to be accepted regardless if they…
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Convert an entire range to uppercase without looping through all the cells

right now I'm using the following code to convert a list of ticker symbols from lowercase to upper case letters: Dim Tickers As String Dim n As Integer For n = 2 To Last Tickers = UCase(W.Cells(n, 1).Value) W.Cells(n, 1).Value = Tickers Next…
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change some lowercase letters to uppercase in string

index = [0, 2, 5] s = "I am like stackoverflow-python" for i in index: s = s[i].upper() print(s) IndexError: string index out of range I understand that in the first iteration the string, s, become just the first character, an uppercase…
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how to change characters case to Upper in NSAttributedString

I want to convert NSAttributedString containing RTFD to uppercase without losing attributes of existing characters and graphics. Thanks,
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Vue.js: uppercase doesn't work

i have this code: data: { cols: ['nome', 'data', 'size', 'ext'], items: [] }, I would need to turn the text into uppercase. I tried this way, following the examples of the official site: {{col |…
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