Unicode contains characters from various languages, including the Latin alphabet, but there are only four characters that have separate types registered in addition to 'uppercase' and 'lowercase'.
For years, social media users have claimed that the terms "uppercase" and "lowercase" got their names becase capital letters were stored in the upper case of traditional printing presses while ...
Mental Floss: The Surprisingly Literal Reason We Call Letters “Uppercase” and “Lowercase”
The origin of the terms uppercase and lowercase might seem pretty self-explanatory. Upper and lower must be references to the height of the letters, and the use of case is presumably an offshoot of ...
The Guardian: Many alphabets - for example, Gujarati, Hebrew, Tamil - don't distinguish between upper and lower case letters. Why does the Latin alphabet?
Many alphabets - for example, Gujarati, Hebrew, Tamil - don't distinguish between upper and lower case letters. Why does the Latin alphabet?
GIGAZINE: Why did older computers and operating systems use uppercase letters instead of lowercase letters?
Today's computer programs sometimes require lowercase and uppercase letters to be entered, but when computers were first introduced, all uppercase letters were used for program input. Various users ...
Why did older computers and operating systems use uppercase letters instead of lowercase letters?