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Exclude similar looking characters #1
Description
Some characters are looking very similar to the other one, so that it's sometimes difficult to distinguish them.
A great example is the capital letter "O", which looks very similar to the character/number "0" (zero).
We want to provide a feature to avoid this kind of characters from the generated password.
Here are further characters:
- 0 (number zero)
- O (capital o)
- 1 (number one)
- l (small l)
- ...
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JKHunter315 commentedon Jul 19, 2020
Why don't we make a library of characters that exclude those hard to identify ones? I dont know the details of the crypto API but if it provides an array of letters/ numbers we could splice them out
karentamrazyan commentedon Jul 19, 2020
Good point @JKHunter315! Started this wiki page Similar Characters to collect all "similar" characters in one place.