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A language is a tool. Is special-casing the U u to prevent a single case of profanity worth it? People will come up with many ways to generate profane language
by sharpercoder 6y ago
A language is a tool. Is special-casing the U u to prevent a single case of profanity worth it?
People will come up with many ways to generate profane language. See guids/uuids for example, or l33tsp34k. A major change to hypothetically prevent a single case seems unbalanced.
- yellowapple 6y ago> A language is a tool. Is special-casing the U u to prevent a single case of profanity worth it? It was important enough that Douglas Crockford entirely removed the letter U from his system except as one of several choices for a check digit. I opted for the same tradeoff for Base32H; if anything, keeping U/u as a separate digit would be the major change. V and U look close enough together (more so than I and L, especially in real-world conditions where legibility is poor) that it didn't seem unreasonable for the latter to be an alias of the former.