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Re:Stack Overflow switches to system fonts on May 10, 2021 by greggman3 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @02:00PM (#27066965)
Fixed width fonts don't always fix it depending on context. Consider

    Your Passcode is: 6234024
Is that an O (oh) or a 0 (zero). It's an Oh. Of course often in a fixed width font the zero has a slash through it but if there's no zero nearby to compare it to most people won't notice.
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Re:Stack Overflow switches to system fonts on May 10, 2021 by jraph on Thursday May 06, 2021 @02:47PM (#27067534)
It's a zero, right? Easily verifiable by copy-pasting it in a Python or JavaScript interpreter.

It's pretty noticeable with the monospace font that used on my system because O is more like a circle and 0 is thinner. There is no slash, and it is fortunate because it could be mistaken with Ø otherwise.

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Re:Stack Overflow switches to system fonts on May 10, 2021 by jolmg on Thursday May 06, 2021 @03:19PM (#27067908)
> There is no slash, and it is fortunate because it could be mistaken with Ø otherwise.

Another option, like on my system, is that zeros have a dot in the middle.

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Re:Stack Overflow switches to system fonts on May 10, 2021 by jayd16 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @02:36PM (#27067408)
>It's an Oh

Is it actually a zero or am I missing something?

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Re:Stack Overflow switches to system fonts on May 10, 2021 by anf0 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @02:40PM (#27067460)
Looks like a zero to me. Unless it was supposed to be Ø?
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Re:Stack Overflow switches to system fonts on May 10, 2021 by mro_name on Friday May 07, 2021 @02:32AM (#27072929)
do you mean the ohs in 'Your' or 'passcode' or are you joking?
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