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Old Jan 5, 2023 | 1:34 pm
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Originally Posted by jpezaris
For me (getting back on track), I've never understood why PNRs use the full character set. To eliminate potential ambiguities, one would expect they use only one of 0/O, 1/I/L, J/G (many non-native English speakers get those confused), V/W (again, can be confused in other languages), etc.
Agreed...somebody must have studied this and we should eliminate confusing letters/numbers from membeship numbers. Besides, with 8 characters using four letters and 4 numbers (or the other way around) there would be enough for the entire planet.
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