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hypertown@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world – 713 points –
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Only if you're using a bad font that doesn't differentiate between I and l

Fixed-width Serif is the only way to go when doing any sort of coding.

However, Comic Sans is a surprisingly decent alternative if you want to use a Sans Serif typeface. The letters are easily distinguishable.

monospace means the width of the "whole" character is always the same, but the width of the visible part of the character is not (imagine how large the dot would have to be for that to work)

...mm.m.

Even if this is lowercase and the dot on the i differentiates then the l would still be a dot.

I was assuming it was all uppercase

Sans serif fonts are widely considered easier to read.

We should follow Calculus's example and represent all lowercase l's as β„“

Or just add serifs to I even in sans serif fonts

My chemistry teacher writes Cl (chlorine) as C(whatever symbol you used) so that we don’t think it’s Carbon and Iodine

Last I remember, serif fonts were easier to read on physical mediums, and sans was easier on digital mediums. Never learned why though so, grain of salt and all that

here i did the numbers 0-9

β€” - β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€”

Why is l not a dot? I assume this is lower case

Guess it’s upper case then.

But upper case i is not a dot?

Uppercase I is often drawn without serifs, in which case it would be a dot.

Uppercase I is often drawn without serifs

I have always thought that's a officially wrong way to write the letter. You can't even distinct it from lower case l.

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Who does a lowercase j with a line?

it's uppercase, also j is still more wide than i

Lowercase i? uppercase J?

either both uppercase or both lowercase it doesn't matter J and j are both more wide than I and i

This doesn't specify the font. It could be an uppercase I in a font that doesn't use the top and bottom lines.

There! In the spine of the dictionary the words are worthless. They are a mere weight pressing against my thoughtlessness.

So the I is lower case, but not the J?

J is in lower case too, the line on the right of the i is shorter than the others.