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Thread: [RESOLVED] ???[CAPS]??? becomes lower case???

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    Re: ???[CAPS]??? becomes lower case???

    1. can you stop spamming this thread
    2. it is a spam prevention type thing
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    Re: ???[CAPS]??? becomes lower case???

    Yes.
    That is why I posted ???[RESOLVED]??? in Bobalandi's thread:

    http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...91#post3017391

    My post there was questioning if his issue was resolved, since he apparently had his solution.

    I was shocked that it went to lowercase.

    As to posting a second post here to illustrate the effect, and a third post to explain what the second post implied against the first:

    Since the first post here in FF stayed in caps
    I made a test in the test area:

    http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=490529

    Its initial post saw the caps go to lower case.

    So I came back here and edited the first post to reflect my observation that it seems to occur in at least 2 forums, but not in FF.

    But then I went back to the test thread, performed some more tests, and observed that the Uppercase->Lowercase phenomena only happened if the affected text was (almost) the only text in the post.

    However, I could see that FF might have special rules that might prevent it from happening, so I posted the second post here in FF as it required to be the only text in a post, and I felt that Editing the first post to just a single line of text would make this a truly meaningless thread.

    And, as the second post did illustrate the phenomena, thus negating my hypotheses in the first post that the issue apparently did not occur here in FF, I had to post the 3rd post to explain why it didn't happen in my first post, and to resolve that it does even occur in FF.

    And so, I shall mark this as resolved.
    The Phenomena occurs when no single character in an individual post is in lowercase.

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    Re: [RESOLVED] ???[CAPS]??? becomes lower case???

    Only alphabetic characters are counted when checking if a post is all in uppercase. If it is, the conversion done is actually to Title Case rather than lowercase, but in your case (pun intended) having non-alphabetic characters meant that the title case effect was unobservable.

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    Re: [RESOLVED] ???[CAPS]??? becomes lower case???

    having non-alphabetic characters meant that the title case effect was unobservable.
    I haven't done the test yet, but I think it is:

    having non-alphabetic characters adjacent and preceeding meant that the title case effect was unobservable.


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