Text readers - something I hadn't considered

[peterb]

I think most people know that in netiquette, posting in capital letters is regarded as shouting, and is considered to generally be bad netiquette.

What I didn't know is that apparently text readers literally interpret strings of capital letters individual characters which it reads out one at a time (processing the letters serially - unlike the brain which processes the string in parallel)

So another reason to not use strings of capital letters - please be considerate.

[spacein_vader]

I think most people know that in netiquette, posting in capital letters is regarded as shouting, and is considered to generally be bad netiquette.

What I didn't know is that apparently text readers literally interpret strings of capital letters individual characters which it reads out one at a time (processing the letters serially - unlike the brain which processes the string in parallel)

So another reason to not use strings of capital letters - please be considerate.

Ah.

I'll let a another forum I use know. There ant mention of Brian Blessed gets converted to all-caps.