I,i,L,l Rant time.

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  1. dk_lightning

    dk_lightning Ancient Guru

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    Why the frick, does a capital i and a lowercase L (example: I l)

    look the same?!

    I hate it so much. Ive got an auto generated password and its got these letters in it and I cant copy paste it so I have to type it but I have NO IDEA is its l or I.....

    ugh

    /rant
     
  2. DannyD

    DannyD Ancient Guru

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    Also the ol' 0 or O, or o!
    Those too!:D:p
     
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  3. AsiJu

    AsiJu Ancient Guru

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    I have no clue

    (the first letter of the above sentence might be an I or an l)
     
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    mbk1969 Ancient Guru

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  5. Amaze

    Amaze Ancient Guru

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    Don't look at us, we dot our capital I's. I blame the English.
     
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  6. TheDigitalJedi

    TheDigitalJedi Ancient Guru

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    Let's play a game. Which character below is an Integer? You have 5 seconds.

    l or l or l? :p
     
  7. wavetrex

    wavetrex Ancient Guru

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    For this reason, certain systems, especially in the Linux world, in text-mode UIs, like console/telnet, are prohibiting symbols which can be confused with one another, and potentially lock out the user or the administrator from their machine.
    For example, you can't have I or l or 0 and O (which have the same size in fixed-width characters)
     
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  8. AsiJu

    AsiJu Ancient Guru

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    Thank god I was worried I just had I second...
     
  9. Truder

    Truder Ancient Guru

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    Serif-fonts exist for a reason.

    Of course sans-serif fonts can indeed be made to appropriately distinguish characters.
     
  10. rflair

    rflair Don Coleus Staff Member

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  11. TheDigitalJedi

    TheDigitalJedi Ancient Guru

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    HAHA! :D
     
  12. TheDigitalJedi

    TheDigitalJedi Ancient Guru

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    lol

    Congratulations. This is correct.

    You are now inducted into the Elite Hall of Gurus. Thanks to your paradigmatic approach which has shown an exemplary skillset of quintessential thinking that transcends beyond all comprehension of ordinary Gurus, the key to this delphic puzzle has indeed unlocked and solved this esoteric mystery.

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    RealNC Ancient Guru

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    Yeah, to make reading text more tiring :p
     
  14. Reclusive781

    Reclusive781 Ancient Guru

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    One looks thinner when typed in other places.
     

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