Comment Caps Lock actually serves a purpose ! (Score 1) 1230
Caps Lock is useful for languages using accents : in OSX, it's used to capitalize accented letters. Hitting shift does not work as it is already mapped to other characters. Eg in French, shift-accented letters (é è à) yield (2 7 0).
I can type a lowercase sentence : Je mange au réverbère à midi.
Hitting caps lock and retyping the same : JE MANGE AU RÉVERBÈRE À MIDI. There you go, beautiful caps with accents !
AFAIK only OSX does this, this should be more widespread. This may not matter much to you anglophones, but here in France this creates ugly typography everytime someone uses WinWord.
There's a small bémol with c-cedilla though, doesn't work in caps lock. république française -> RÉPUBLIQUE FRANçAISE. :(
I can type a lowercase sentence : Je mange au réverbère à midi.
Hitting caps lock and retyping the same : JE MANGE AU RÉVERBÈRE À MIDI. There you go, beautiful caps with accents !
AFAIK only OSX does this, this should be more widespread. This may not matter much to you anglophones, but here in France this creates ugly typography everytime someone uses WinWord.
There's a small bémol with c-cedilla though, doesn't work in caps lock. république française -> RÉPUBLIQUE FRANçAISE.
