Reply to post: Re: Strewth

0ops. 1,OOO-plus parking fine refunds ordered after drivers typed 'O' instead of '0'

Anonymous Coward
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Re: Strewth

But if you put a diagonal line through the zero, how will you tell it apart from the Scandinavian letter Ø???

The solution is normalisation. In the same way dictionaries don't contain both "hello" and "Hello" and "HELLO", the software should normalise both 0 and O to the same value.

But that would require 1. work (= expense) and 2. losing out on ill-gotten gains. So none of these companies are going to do that unless forced to by court or by law.

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