Solved A gui exists to distinguish pasted characters?

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jb_fvwm2

Increasingly, a series of characters are used for Passwords, vpn certs, redemption
tokens, amid which contain I [capital i ] not distinguishable from l [ lowercase L ] etc
until pasted [ the workaround so far ] into Nedit. But having the series POSTED does not
enable reading a aloud which letter OR number [ 0 vs O, ] [ l, I, 1 ] which enables it
put away on paper for safekeeping and later use. Is there another alternative to Nedit which would not only enable paste-in, but show more clearly in the pasted result what is the
actual letter or number? OR a perl5 program which would do a cli equivalent, and if
so, how to feed the series as $1 since "xclip" does not seem to work in the terminal in
this case, in the few times I've tried?
 
FWIW pasting it in here to the forum might be workable, but one's private keys etc would then be visible...
 
jb_fvwm2 said:
Is there another alternative to Nedit which would not only enable paste-in, but show more clearly in the pasted result what is the actual letter or number?
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Use a better font. One that shows the differences between a '1', 'l' or 'I' more clearly. Keepass also has an option, when generating passwords, to exclude such 'look-a-like' characters. Not ideal to exclude characters of course, but it prevents those issues.

I've always been partial to x11-fonts/terminus-font but recently switched to x11-fonts/nerd-fonts
 
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