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Why did they choose that offer character set? I get excluding vowels to prevent profanity, but why exclude B, and not start from zero?
by Something1234 8y ago
Why did they choose that offer character set? I get excluding vowels to prevent profanity, but why exclude B, and not start from zero?
- strken 8y ago0 and 1 look like I and O, B looks like 8, and so on. They picked characters that can't be easily confused. The letters are also chosen so they won't spell meaningful words. The relevant section of the definition is short, and an interesting read: https://github.com/google/open-location-code/blob/master/docs/olc_definition.adoc#open-location-code https://github.com/google/open-location-code/blob/master/doc...