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ASCII bit trick to convert lowercase to uppercase ...
For a fun application, this trick is used in a proposal to encode extra randomness into the 0x20 bit of each character of a DNS query (to increase resistence to poisoning attacks):
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-vixie-dnsext-dns0x20-00
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