At 4:05 PM +0200 7/14/06, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: >The slash is there to distinguish between O and 0 in the monospace font. >It's an explicit requirement for a font which may be used in terminals, >software IDEs and other technical contexts. oOØ0ø OK, which are which? It's well known already that slash does not distinguish between Oh and Zero, because of the Slashed Oh (U+00D8 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH STROKE) used in Europe. >In non-monospace families it's possible to get without it, since O is >then wider than 0. In monospace it's the only possible choice. It's not the only possible choice. My hack has been to put a dot in the upper-right of a Zero. It still looks like a Zero, but permits disambiguation with Oh when needed. No one else likes that hack, but it's certainly possible. >I suspect 0 was one of the most audited glyphs when Vera was originally >released, as many monospace fonts are totally unusable for tech-speak >because they don't distinguish 0 and O (and applications do care about >the difference) Keep on trying. If a Zero looks like an Oh, at least people know to watch out, but if it looks like a Slashed Oh or Eight, then they're just going to be misled. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
