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printing passwords: How can I differentiate l/1, o/O/0, etc and visualize spaces?

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Mar 15, 202621941 views
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I would like to print randomly generated passwords, so that look-alike characters like zero and the letter "o" or one and the letter "l" are clearly distinguishable. I would also like to find a way to visualize spaces, I.e. I'm looking for a font that does that or an alternative to underscores (sin…

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As @uSlackr said, eliminating the troublesome characters helps a lot, if you are generating these yourself. That said, you'll want to look at fonts optimized for programmers, because they run into these kinds of problems all the time. Everyone's got…

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