The insane part is trying to solve the problems created by homoglyphs in post-assignment.

What's the need to allow both `O` and `0` on a plate if it's supposed to be hard to tell apart anyway? Say there was some reason to want to both characters, why allow assigning a new plate which would match with an existing assignment? It's just a loss of time, resources, and safety for both law enforcement and everyone else to allow duplicate matches to be a possibility.

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LocalH 9 hours ago | parent [-]

The funny thing is that disambiguation of glyphs in a font is a solved problem. Slash the zeroes, wide serifs on the capital i, etc. They just...don't do so in these states where it is still a problem.

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zehaeva 9 hours ago | parent [-]

It's also a a problem because not all states are the same, some don't allow O, some do. Some allow 0, some don't! The cameras need to be able to read both.

	▲	mrlonglong 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		In the UK this issue was recognised decades ago. They only allow certain letters and numbers in specific places on the registration plates.