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On a purely practical point: ell zero. Probably the two worst characters to combine in this way, because in various contexts and fonts it’ll look like the wrong thing and thus be confusing to users. In uppercase, the zero looks like a capital o (L0 looks like LO), and in lowercase the ell looks like a one (l0 looks like 10).


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