Understanding and avoiding visually ambiguous characters in IDs

1. gubbins

   1 1 2 - Python

   Gubbins serial number generator & validator

   

   A few years ago, I created a system that generates a serial number from a prefix and a 32-bit unsigned integer and fixes up this kind of input error when passing the serial.

   https://github.com/pallas/gubbins

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3. bips

   2 1,287 9,775 9.5 Wikitext

   Bitcoin Improvement Proposals

   

   Modern bitcoin addresses use a base-32 character set that leaves out some of the most ambiguous pairs and also permutes the address ordering so that the most visually similar remaining characters produce single bit errors which are better handled by the addresses error detecting (and potentially correcting) code.

   https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0173.mediawi...

4. gajus-com

   3 1 0 9.0 MDX

   

   Heads up that the article is open source in case you wanted to contribute an edit.

   https://github.com/gajus/gajus-com/blob/main/src/blogPosts/2...

   I fixed the typo though. Thanks!

5. uuid7-csharp

   4 2 69 0.0 C#

   UUIDv7 for C#. Time-ordered UUIDs with up to 50ns resolution and 48 bits of randomness.

   3. IDs don't use L and O because those can be confused for other characters

   I've found it very handy in my travels.

   [1] https://github.com/stevesimmons/uuid7-csharp?tab=readme-ov-f...

6. bip39

   5 770 3,761 2.7 JavaScript

   A web tool for converting BIP39 mnemonic codes

   

7. python-mnemonic

   6 72 879 4.2 Python

   :snake: Mnemonic code for generating deterministic keys, BIP39

   

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