Current Events > You know what l fucking hate? Lowercase 'L' and uppercase 'i' Iooking the same

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NeonOctopus
12/26/17 7:55:45 PM
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Shit infuriates me so much! lt's hard to tell what's what if l'm copying a urI Iink or something. idk what moron made fonts Iike that but it reaIIy grinds my gears >_>

btw, l switched aII the uppercase i's and Iowercase L's in this topic >_> l bet you couIdn't even teII
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Blue_Inigo
12/26/17 7:57:52 PM
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l dont see the probIem
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MC_BatCommander
12/26/17 7:58:45 PM
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Any font that does that is total garbage tbh
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itachi15243
12/26/17 8:01:26 PM
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Why does it matter when you can't even telI
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I Like Toast
12/26/17 8:02:17 PM
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IlIlIlIlIl
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EverDownward
12/26/17 8:03:23 PM
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I DON'T HATE lT
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WilliamPorygon
12/26/17 8:04:31 PM
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NeonOctopus posted...
btw, l switched aII the uppercase i's and Iowercase L's in this topic >_> l bet you couIdn't even teII

I copied and pasted into Word and changed the font, because I suspected as much
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itachi15243
12/26/17 8:04:59 PM
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I Like Toast posted...
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the uppercase i's are shorter
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CensorErik
12/26/17 8:05:47 PM
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itachi15243 posted...
Why does it matter when you can't even telI

It matters if you're typing a code for something and there are several ls and Is and you can't tell which is an I and which is an l. Used to be the same for O and 0. Thank goodness someone fixed that.
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CarlGrimes
12/26/17 8:08:21 PM
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I can tell on my screen. The l is just a line but the I has the top and bottom line.
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Mizznox
12/26/17 8:09:04 PM
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Semi related, I find it odd that they don't use I, O, or Q on VINs to avoid confusion with 1 or 0, yet they do use S which can be confused with 5. I've had to deal with VIN discrepancies a few times because of it.
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Tmk
12/26/17 8:09:53 PM
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Yeah it's really dumb. Like, a font has ONE job: distinct characters for each letter. If it fails at that, it shouldn't exist.
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dummy420
12/26/17 8:18:43 PM
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My apartment complex uses letters instead of numbers and the l I thing is now an issue for me. I think that naming scheme is pretty bad.
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Ricemills
12/26/17 8:28:44 PM
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NeonOctopus posted...
Shit infuriates me so much! lt's hard to tell what's what if l'm copying a urI Iink or something. idk what moron made fonts Iike that but it reaIIy grinds my gears >_>

btw, l switched aII the uppercase i's and Iowercase L's in this topic >_> l bet you couIdn't even teII


i can easily see it with a different font
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Talks
12/26/17 8:38:30 PM
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I can see the difference in this topic. Maybe it's my theme? I use Ninestalgia.
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CensorErik
12/27/17 1:28:59 AM
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Ricemills posted...
NeonOctopus posted...
Shit infuriates me so much! lt's hard to tell what's what if l'm copying a urI Iink or something. idk what moron made fonts Iike that but it reaIIy grinds my gears >_>

btw, l switched aII the uppercase i's and Iowercase L's in this topic >_> l bet you couIdn't even teII


i can easily see it with a different font

Awesome! Get the people who make printed codes on gift cards, temporary passwords, contests, etc., which aren't on a screen of any kind, to use different fonts. Those are the only times I have issues, but they're a big pain in the anus.
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DrizztLink
12/27/17 1:31:17 AM
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CensorErik posted...
Ricemills posted...
NeonOctopus posted...
Shit infuriates me so much! lt's hard to tell what's what if l'm copying a urI Iink or something. idk what moron made fonts Iike that but it reaIIy grinds my gears >_>

btw, l switched aII the uppercase i's and Iowercase L's in this topic >_> l bet you couIdn't even teII


i can easily see it with a different font

Awesome! Get the people who make printed codes on gift cards, temporary passwords, contests, etc., which aren't on a screen of any kind, to use different fonts. Those are the only times I have issues, but they're a big painus.

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ChromaticAngel
12/27/17 1:32:07 AM
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on mobile, the default font makes it clear what is what.
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NeonOctopus
12/27/17 5:20:08 PM
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Tmk posted...
Yeah it's really dumb. Like, a font has ONE job: distinct characters for each letter. If it fails at that, it shouldn't exist.

qft
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hollow_shrine
12/27/17 5:25:16 PM
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This is ridiculous. From context you'll know which you're reading. Is it the first letter or a sentence, does it appear to work as a noun in the sentence, does the word consist of a single letter? Then you know from the context exactly what you're looking at here.

Also who cares about letter-case in urls/programming? I would assume everything is lower-case there.
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ilfait
12/27/17 5:43:44 PM
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The present, past, and future tense of "read" should not have identical spelling.
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hollow_shrine
12/27/17 5:45:36 PM
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ilfait posted...
The present, past, and future tense of "read" should not have identical spelling.

Context clues. Also the future tense of read is complex. "Will read." It's comparatively unmistakable.
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ilfait
12/27/17 5:51:28 PM
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hollow_shrine posted...
ilfait posted...
The present, past, and future tense of "read" should not have identical spelling.

Context clues. Also the future tense of read is complex. "Will read." It's comparatively unmistakable.

The context clues can come too late with "read". If you can't know the tense of a word until further on in the sentence, then it's a flaw in the language. It makes me sympathetic to that ugly upside down question mark that Spanish people use at the beginning of sentences.
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