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 IL
Capital i and lowercase L look the same in pretty much any sans-serif computer font
Submitted 3 days ago by DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
Comments
NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 2 days ago
notabot@piefed.social 2 days ago
I’m sorry for you Ioss. Was it caused by poor font design?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 days ago
.:|:;YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth 2 days ago
Is this IOS?
wabafee@lemmy.world 2 days ago
No, this is sans-serif
NachBarcelona@piefed.social 1 day ago
in that case it’s 1 2 2 49, which i prefer over a single L.
lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Not sure what you’re talking about
y0kai@anarchist.nexus 2 days ago
People named Al are not necessarily artificially intelligent.
foggy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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.
reddig33@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Please enter your serial number…
One? Ell? Eye? Zero? Oh? Vee Vee Double-U?
tal@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Mother fuckers just base 58 that shit.
I’m assuming that this is the point you’re making, but just to clarify:
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.
foggy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah…
I didn’t mean RFC Base32.
I meant human-safe alphabets.
Base58 or Crockford Base32 (which is distinct from “base 32”) that intentionally remove I, L, O, and 1.
RFC Base32 still hits the exact problem I’m ranting about.
pedz@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
In French, he is il and it has always looked a bit weird when typed at the beginning of a sentence.
Il y a un I suivi d’un l.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 day ago
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.
jwt@programming.dev 1 day ago
How about the Greek question mark: ; I still need to find an opportune moment to prank some collegues with that one.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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 |.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 days ago
One reason why they were called grotesque in their early days.
SippyCup@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
i L
L i
Capital i is slightly taller than lowercase L.
phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Other way around friend capital i is still shorter than lowercase L
Il=iL lI=Li
DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
That’s stupid, the capital letter should be taller than the lowercase; and yet that’s how it is in almost every font!
ameel@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That is very irritating. Hope you eventually get the chance to use a font that passes the i-l-1 (eye-ell-one) test.
capuccino@lemmy.world 2 days ago
lmL
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 days ago
REAIIY?
woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Others just set a DIN 1451 font such as the widely available Bahnschrift and have nothing to complain about.
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