... topic: 362 Rant about mangling of fonts. posted: 12 Mar 2008 05:23 from: Thor Lawrence I replied to a comment about Zero-14. In the text I was very careful to distinguish between zero and uppercase o. When it arrives on my screen everything has been changed to lowercase o. I am not an 'appy bunny. Why does the software not distinguish between zero and o? Disgruntled of Reykjavik aka Thor Thor Lawrence Technical writing and editing for the applied natural sciences GSM:+ 354+ 868 5124 HMRS: 3751; GOG: 8090 Skype: thorlawrence posted: 12 Mar 2008 05:33 from: Martin Wynne Thor Lawrence wrote: Why does the software not distinguish between zero and o? Hi Thor, I guess you are reading the messages on the Yahoo web site? Yahoo uses a font in which the zero character is very similar to a lower-case letter o. But if you look carefully you will see that they are slightly different: yahoo_small_zero.png The answer is really very simple -- stop using ...