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@tlayoyo
ICL Computer punch card operators expected slashed Oh O Ø, but other computer system operators (reading handwritten coding sheets) assumed it was a slashed zero 0. I can type Ø (The Scandi letter) on Linux but not slashed zero, though there may be a method.

The ICL made somewhat more sense as the Ø Character existed before computers, Except it's a Runic / Nordic / Scandi O, not the English O with a slash.

The Wikipedia disambiguation is 100% correct!

And why there was no confusion between I and 1? 👀 i to this date struggle more with this two characters

@tlayoyo
or capital I and small l on sans.
The 1, I and l are not ambiguous in many hand scripts. The 1 in some countries is like a closed up 7 and 7 often has a stroke. The l would have a slight tail.

The default sans-serif fonts are terrible.

Though many typewriters, especially portable. had no 0 and 1. Also the " and ' was invented for typewriters. You could create characters by backspace and overprint and this was on Wordstar etc.

@raymaccarthy @tlayoyo yeah, sans-serif is overrated and 90% of its use is misuse; on the laptop I apply generous userContent.css fixes, on the smartphone I’m SOL