monocase

English

Etymology

From mono- +‎ case.

Adjective

monocase (not comparable)

(linguistics, typography) Of a script or typeface: having only one case, making no distinction between upper and lower case.
Synonyms: unicameral, unicase

Coordinate term: bicameral
- 1996, David A. Schmitt, “Using Locale Information and Unicode” (chapter 8), in Extending the MFC Library: Add Useful Reusable Features to the Microsoft Foundation Class Library, Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Developers Press, →ISBN, page 163:
  American and European programmers are often surprised to discover that not all locales use a two-case alphabet. Eastern languages (e.g., Japanese and Chinese) based on ideograms are monocase; while Middle Eastern languages can have four or more cases.
- 2012, Robert Hillier, “The Design and Development of the Sylexiad Typeface”, in Nicola Brunswick, editor, Supporting Dyslexic Adults in Higher Education and the Workplace, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 189:
  Dine 1 is a ‘monocase’ font that consists of a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters. It was designed that way to provide each letter character with a distinct shape without compromising any meaning associated with that shape.
(computing, typography) Supporting or consisting of only one case of letters; either all uppercase or all lowercase; (also), case insensitive, treating upper and lower case as being the same.
Coordinate term: duocase
- 1985, Rebecca Thomas, Jean Yates, “Text Processing” (chapter 5), in A User Guide to the UNIX System, 2nd edition, Berkeley, Calif.: Osborne McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 281:
  The program prompts for the old password (if any) and then for the new one (twice). The caller must supply these. New passwords should be at least four characters long if they use a sufficiently rich alphabet and at least six characters long if monocase. Only the first eight characters of the password are significant.
- 1988, Mike Banahan, “Variables and Arithmetic” (chapter 2), in The C Book: Featuring the Draft ANSI C Standard, Wokingham: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 23:
  The Standard chose to stay with the old restrictions on these external names: they are not guaranteed to be different unless they differ from each other in the first six characters. Worse than that, upper and lower case letters may be treated the same! […] There is nothing to prevent any specific implementation from giving better limits than these, but for maximum portability the six monocase characters must be all that you expect.