Current Font:
$ echo 'Il1Il1Il1_0O0O0O'
Il1Il1Il1_0O0O0O

Please, think about changing
Your css-files to use
Google's Hack-Font, or
something else that enables
distinguishing:

Lower-"ell"
Upper-"eye"
Numeric-"one"

Upper-"oh"
Numeric-"zero"

more easily on first sight.

Thanks for attention.

### Edit:

It would _tremendously_ enhance the
ability of seekers for help and for supporters
to quickly cut and paste problem-data and
solution-examples.

This is a help forum. Not an art-publisher's website.

Non-proportional fonts destroy every pasted
output's alignment.

And I know. There are CODE-tags. But they only complicate things
and are completely unnecessary.

A nice mono-spaced font is pretty enough. And
infinitely more useful.

# Edited again: I forgot about the 'Vertical Stroke'…
# Let's test it:

$ echo 'Il1|Il1|Il1|'
Il1|Il1|Il1|

Testing QUOTE and CODE tags: Horizontal Scrolling. Yes or No?

$ echo; echo -e "Printing: a 200-characters line\n"; echo
01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789

Printing: a 200-characters line

01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789

Code: Select all

$ echo; echo -e "Printing:  a 200-characters line\n"; echo 01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789

Printing:  a 200-characters line

01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789


WHY is there a NEWLINE after the first line's "echo"?

# Width Comparison

$ echo -e '\nTest the Lenght/Width of 10:\n\n1111111111\nIIIIIIIIII\nllllllllll\n||||||||||'

Test the Lenght/Width of 10:

1111111111
IIIIIIIIII
llllllllll
||||||||||

Correction:

Above, I talked about "Google's Hack Font ".

That was wrong. Because:


$ cat /usr/share/doc/fonts-hack-ttf/copyright | grep '[[:digit:]]{4}'

Copyright: 2015 Christopher Simpkins
2003 Bitstream Inc.
Copyright (c) 2015, Christopher Simpkins with Reserved Font Name Hack.
Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Copyright 2003 Bitstream Inc. and licensed under the
Copyright: 2015 Paride Legovini <pl@ninthfloor.org>


My apologies to the copyright holders.

Please find a suitable category in the forums before posting. This post has absolutely nothing to do with neon. I've now moved it to the forum feedback category. Also see the forum rules on posting

While some of the points about distinguishing various characters may be valid, I strongly disagree with the suggestion to use fixed-width by default for the forum. Most of the content of the kde forums is (non-technical) general discussion where proportional text is better suited to readability. Also making use of explicit tags to mark technical content (e.g. code, file content, log output, command strings, etc) allows for better handling and rendering than just always using raw text, including things like adding scrollbars to wide/tall blocks and the convenient Select All button. Besides making a visual distinction between description and code.

To another point in my experience online forums generally use proportional fonts and provide some means of marking technical content which is then rendered using fixed-width fonts.

(granted I say this as a rare developer who uses proportional fonts for his code and am certainly biased, but I expect that I am not exceptional in this opinion of the kind of font to use for the forums)