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Capital i and lowercase L look the same in pretty much any sans-serif computer font (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah... No

I didn’t mean RFC Base32.

I meant human-safe alphabets.

Base58 or Crockford Base32 that intentionally remove I, L, O, and 1 (which is distinct from "base 32").

RFC Base32 still hits the exact problem I’m ranting about.

To be clear the (vanilla) base32 version of the aforementioned string:

"I dont fucking know lots of lllllIIIIIIlllIII etc"

Outputs:

"JEQGI33OOQQGM5LDNNUW4ZZANNXG65ZANRXXI4ZAN5TCA3DMNRWGYSKJJFEUSSLMNRWESSKJEBSXIYY="

You can use cyberchef to check for yourself.

This does not solve the problem.

I meant what I'd said: base 58.

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