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D or d come on (i.imgur.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/programmer_humor

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You know the problem but not the set of reasonable or practical solutions.

Anyways I and l look identical too in many fonts. Should we make them the same letter?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

No, but that's what Unicode does.

The solution is to force font creators to be fucking reasonable, just like how the Cyrillic A looks exactly like the Latin A. They are the same letter. The letters L and I are totally different (in handwriting at least)

They already did that for CJK. Make characters that look the same in handwriting b have be same codepointer.