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> If you cannot print Unicode text on a sheet of paper and know its meaning, then

then you've picked the wrong font for the job. This can happen even with ASCII, e.g. if you print out cryptographic secrets in base64 for use during disaster recovery and then discover you cannot distinguish O and 0 (capital o and zero) nor I and l (capital i and small L). (Hopefully you discover this immediately after printing, instead of after losing all your data.) That doesn't mean those identical glyphs should never have been encoded differently, it means font designers need to make them more distinct.




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