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		hananova on April 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Understanding and avoiding visually ambiguous char... Why not include '1', but make it so '\|Il1' all map to the same internal value? That way you have no ambiguity while minimizing alphabet reduction.

shkkmo on April 23, 2024 [–]

I'm not following how your suggestion. It seems like we're saying the same thing?

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