Bash and Fonts - Help !

[timmoore46]

When reading Bash Script programs the difference of some letters become very important

One ___________ 1
lower case L _____ l

upper case i_____ I

can all look about the same !

Does anyone know of a font (in LibreOffice for example) that has different looking symbols so mistakes are less likely ?



Tim

[rpdom]

For editing code, I mainly use Bitstream Vera Mono (from the ttf-bitstream-vera package).

All of those characters are distinctive.

Here's a screen shot of your examples in Geany:

[timmoore46]

Brill ! That is the fix ! I hunt it out tomorrow.



Tim

[timmoore46]

DejaVu Sans Mono works

1 one
l lowecase L
I uppercase i

I will post a screen grab of this test !

Many many many thanks



Tim

[timmoore46]

Hope this worked the text was wrong on one line

should have been

I uppercase i