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by Lorento 4040 days ago
I have a pdf scan of a text book that exibits this problem. It's a complex math book with a lot of superscripts, subscripts and combinations of them. Some are the wrong symbol - eg i instead of j, etc. It was very difficult to study from not being able to trust any symbol. I put it down to bad editing of the printed original until I found out about this story sometime ago.
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One of the links in the comments of the original post has a good example of that:

http://everist.org/NobLog/20131122_an_actual_knob.htm#jbig2

(JBIG2 discussion near bottom, rest of page is about electronics.)