It seems apparent that no matter what we do, there is going to be some corner of computerdom that does not want to deal with the spacebar as a legitimate character, leaving us with the lowly underscore to fulfill its linguistic clarification duties as a stand-in.

In lieu of the proper but impossible action, (completely redesigning the travesty that is the QWERTY layout), I propose that keyboard manufacturers start to map the underscore as a shift character to the spacebar.
-- RayfordSteele, Oct 08 2012

Quite easy to remap a UTF codepage to do this.

Highly Bakeable and surprisingly useful.
-- 8th of 7, Oct 08 2012


But how will I enter a capital space?
-- theleopard, Oct 08 2012


Use capslock, obviously.
-- RayfordSteele, Oct 08 2012


Through the front door, after being cleared by security, is the usual method. Other options not approved.
-- normzone, Oct 08 2012


Just make sure you take the capslock off after using it for a capital space. I'm so sick of seeing grammatically incorrect use of the capital space. The silent shouting of spaces gets annoying after a while.
-- not_only_but_also, Oct 10 2012


Am I the only one who thinks capital space should map to an em space while lower case space maps to an en?

Otherwise, I like the idea.
-- MechE, Oct 10 2012


omg keyboard-controlled kerning? brilliant extension!
-- smendler, Oct 12 2012


Just don't try to enter your capital's airspace. They get highly annoyed when you do that.
-- RayfordSteele, May 09 2016


I don't want to ruin your perfect bun record, but this would totally screw up anyone who wants to select an entire row in Excel, where shift-space is the shortcut to do so.
-- kevinthenerd, Nov 02 2016


Oh. Right!! and here's your positive. I was hoping for a shift in the time/space continuum... but punctuation is important as well.
-- r_kreher, Nov 06 2016


Or they could just eliminate the underscore all together. I use it, even here in my nom de bake, and also in my email. It's a pretty good gatekeeper. If people can't figure out the underscore, do I really want to be communicating with them??? (I don't think so.)
-- r_kreher, Nov 06 2016


//while lower case space maps to an en?..//

Did you know that Google will be offering space maps next year??
-- r_kreher, Nov 06 2016



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