I l
l I
Guess which one is which?
I don’t really care about 1, because it’s usually different, and I can’t be arsed to change the font.
I Il
lI ILI’m sorry for you Ioss. Was it caused by poor font design?
.:|:;Is this IOS?
No, this is sans-serif
in that case it’s 1 2 2 49, which i prefer over a single L.
Not sure what you’re talking about
I can’t be arsed to change the font.
Others just set a DIN 1451 font such as the widely available Bahnschrift and have nothing to complain about.
People named Al are not necessarily artificially intelligent.
but they could be weird
One of them calls me Betty.
I can be your long lost pal
In French, il has always looked a bit weird when typed at the beginning of a sentence.
Il y a un I suivi d’un l.
As a job title: sysadmin
Loathe.
Every now and then there crops up the situation where there is no copy/paste from host to host. And when that involves a fucking product key or some shit… Mother fuckers just base 58 that shit.
What would you rather read and type?
Product key: “I dont fucking know lots of lllllIIIIIIlllIII etc”
Or…
Product key: “CqiDNKttsj1NUubpbVJ2VJL9eMEpRvRFMV3hNPRxtUX7SMox5UQjeEZX3DqqHNAfkSE”
I rest my case.
Please enter your serial number…
One? Ell? Eye? Zero? Oh? Vee Vee Double-U?
Mother fuckers just base 58 that shit.
I’m assuming that this is the point you’re making, but just to clarify:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base32
The most widely used[citation needed] base32 alphabet is defined in RFC 4648 §6 and the earlier RFC 3548 (2003). The scheme was originally designed in 2000 by John Myers for SASL/GSSAPI.[2] It uses an alphabet of A–Z, followed by 2–7. The digits 0, 1 and 8 are skipped due to their similarity with the letters O, I and B (thus “2” has a decimal value of 26).
This is generally considered to be a preferable encoding for things like this.
Yeah… No
I didn’t mean RFC Base32.
I meant human-safe alphabets.
Base58 or Crockford Base32 that intentionally remove I, L, O, and 1 (which is distinct from “base 32”).
RFC Base32 still hits the exact problem I’m ranting about.
To be clear the (vanilla) base32 version of the aforementioned string:
“I dont fucking know lots of lllllIIIIIIlllIII etc”
Outputs:
“JEQGI33OOQQGM5LDNNUW4ZZANNXG65ZANRXXI4ZAN5TCA3DMNRWGYSKJJFEUSSLMNRWESSKJEBSXIYY=”
You can use cyberchef to check for yourself.
This does not solve the problem.
I meant what I’d said: base 58.
I hate this so much. There are plenty of aesthetically pleasing ways to avoid it. Windows 8 was particularly bad, my recollection was they literally looked exactly the same there, no difference at all. Luckily I only had to use it for a very brief unpaid internship.
How about the Greek question mark: ; I still need to find an opportune moment to prank some collegues with that one.
Like “O” and “0” in some fonts. The O is slightly fatter.
In the case of Il, the l is slightly taller. Don’t get me started on |.
One reason why they were called grotesque in their early days.
That is very irritating. Hope you eventually get the chance to use a font that passes the i-l-1 (eye-ell-one) test.
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i L
L i
Capital i is slightly taller than lowercase L.
Other way around friend capital i is still shorter than lowercase L
Il=iL lI=Li
That’s stupid, the capital letter should be taller than the lowercase; and yet that’s how it is in almost every font!
I agree that the uppercase I should be larger than the lowercase L, but i disagree that that’s how most fonts do it.
I was saying “that” is how it is.
Other way around friend capital i is still shorter than lowercase L
This is that. I was referring to the previous comment when I said “that”, so I agree with you.
Oh, I misread your comment.
reaIIy?
