sampsa <sampsa at mac.com> mobile +44 7961 149465 On 18 Dec 2013, at 22:12, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote: Hello! What's wrong with ordinary English characters, and all upper case? It wasn't until the development of the computer, that teletypes suddenly found themselves speaking upper and lower case. ----- I think you'll find they're LATIN characters, derived from the Etruscans, who got their script from the Greeks who in turn got it from Byblos, Lebanon, AKA Jbeil. Great little town, pretty girls, good food and awesome little corner bars in the medieval souq.