Humane Alphabets
Read OriginalThe article discusses 'humane alphabets'—character sets designed to avoid visually similar characters (like 1, I, l, 0, O) in URLs and identifiers to reduce ambiguity and improve user experience. It provides a practical example using the Sqids library to encode database IDs and explains the rationale from a web development and UI/UX perspective, linking to related concepts like homograph attacks and clean URLs.
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