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Re: Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn

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Peter Flass wrote:
> Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> wrote:
>> Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> writes:
>>
>>> On 24-May-14 09:27, Paul Sture wrote:
>>>> On 2014-05-23, Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> wrote:
>> <snip>
>>>>> Please write "1L" rather than "1l"; in most fonts, the latter looks
>>>>> like "11".
>>>>
>>>> That isn't "most fonts" in my experience, but we can definitely
>>>> blame Microsoft here for popularising Arial by making it the default
>>>> when creating various documents; it was the first one alphabetically
>>>> in their list of available fonts and that was the default.
>>>
>>> The two glyphs look very similar in _all_ of the fonts I commonly use,
>>> including Courier New for plain-text email/news.  I rarely use Arial or
>>> Times New Roman; I prefer Calibri (sans serif) and Georgia (serif).
>>
>> Fonts designed for programming often make some effort to distinguish
>> between 1 and l and between 0 and O.  The font I'm reading this with,
>> Ubuntu mono (which is the same as DejaVu mono in this respect), has a
>> dot in the 0 and the l has a distinctive curl at the bottom.
>
> I tend to not consider non-programming fonts; most plain text doesn't
> intermix "1" and "l" in such a way that they can't be easily distinguished.
>
There is a font which uses I for 1.  It gets confusing even in novels.

/BAH

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Re: Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2014-05-25 15:09 +0000
  Re: Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2014-05-25 15:21 -0600
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