Commonly confused ASCII characters [modified]
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I've had a request from above to try and see if anyone's done a study to identify ascii chars commonly mistakable for each other? Making our own list isn't a problem, but having some sort of study, etc to point to to say why we did it would be nice. eg: ( and { 0 and O Edit: I have a more extensive list than the two examples I gave, I don't need individual suggestions from the peanut gallery. :rolleyes: MY boss was hoping for an actual study of some sort or the like.
You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always got punched out when I reached 4.... -- El Corazon
modified on Friday, May 23, 2008 1:34 PM
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I've had a request from above to try and see if anyone's done a study to identify ascii chars commonly mistakable for each other? Making our own list isn't a problem, but having some sort of study, etc to point to to say why we did it would be nice. eg: ( and { 0 and O Edit: I have a more extensive list than the two examples I gave, I don't need individual suggestions from the peanut gallery. :rolleyes: MY boss was hoping for an actual study of some sort or the like.
You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always got punched out when I reached 4.... -- El Corazon
modified on Friday, May 23, 2008 1:34 PM
How About 1 and l and if you're using a proportional font like Arial, I and l
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I've had a request from above to try and see if anyone's done a study to identify ascii chars commonly mistakable for each other? Making our own list isn't a problem, but having some sort of study, etc to point to to say why we did it would be nice. eg: ( and { 0 and O Edit: I have a more extensive list than the two examples I gave, I don't need individual suggestions from the peanut gallery. :rolleyes: MY boss was hoping for an actual study of some sort or the like.
You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always got punched out when I reached 4.... -- El Corazon
modified on Friday, May 23, 2008 1:34 PM
Why?
MrPlankton
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I've had a request from above to try and see if anyone's done a study to identify ascii chars commonly mistakable for each other? Making our own list isn't a problem, but having some sort of study, etc to point to to say why we did it would be nice. eg: ( and { 0 and O Edit: I have a more extensive list than the two examples I gave, I don't need individual suggestions from the peanut gallery. :rolleyes: MY boss was hoping for an actual study of some sort or the like.
You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always got punched out when I reached 4.... -- El Corazon
modified on Friday, May 23, 2008 1:34 PM
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Why?
MrPlankton
MrPlankton wrote:
Why?
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Why?
MrPlankton
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How About 1 and l and if you're using a proportional font like Arial, I and l
“Cannot find REALITY.SYS...Universe Halted.” ~ God on phone with Microsoft Customer Support
Independent123 wrote:
I and l
That's the biggie! :~
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Makes sense. Just curious.
MrPlankton
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I've had a request from above to try and see if anyone's done a study to identify ascii chars commonly mistakable for each other? Making our own list isn't a problem, but having some sort of study, etc to point to to say why we did it would be nice. eg: ( and { 0 and O Edit: I have a more extensive list than the two examples I gave, I don't need individual suggestions from the peanut gallery. :rolleyes: MY boss was hoping for an actual study of some sort or the like.
You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always got punched out when I reached 4.... -- El Corazon
modified on Friday, May 23, 2008 1:34 PM
I write all my code in hex so there is no confusion.
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I've had a request from above to try and see if anyone's done a study to identify ascii chars commonly mistakable for each other? Making our own list isn't a problem, but having some sort of study, etc to point to to say why we did it would be nice. eg: ( and { 0 and O Edit: I have a more extensive list than the two examples I gave, I don't need individual suggestions from the peanut gallery. :rolleyes: MY boss was hoping for an actual study of some sort or the like.
You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always got punched out when I reached 4.... -- El Corazon
modified on Friday, May 23, 2008 1:34 PM
I've looked for that too but ended up doing my own table for generating passwords, license keys and the like, where you don't want people to confuse characters. I usually use only letters and digits, but I exclude these: I, 1, l (uppercase i, one and lowercase L, respectively) 8, B (problem for us over 45) O, 0, o (oh and zero) Q (tail not visible enough in some fonts) Z, 2 S, 5 So I end up picking random characters from: ACDEFGHJKLMNPRTUVXYabcdefghijkmnpqrstuvwxyz34679 I'm seriously considering removing 6 and b as well - they generate support calls now and then... Later,
-- Peter
