> One way to enhance the usability of unique identifiers is by making them easily copyable. This can be achieved by removing the hyphens from the UUIDs,
No! That's throwing the baby out with the bathwater! Removing all separators means rare-but-important manual tasks of transcription or comparison become terrible, since there are no clear chunks.
Instead use a different character which doesn't have the same problem, one that most software considers part of the same "word"... such as the classic underscore.
For most people, double-clicking on this 123_456_789 will select all 9 important numbers. (And maybe a trailing space, but that's a separate problem.)
No! That's throwing the baby out with the bathwater! Removing all separators means rare-but-important manual tasks of transcription or comparison become terrible, since there are no clear chunks.
Instead use a different character which doesn't have the same problem, one that most software considers part of the same "word"... such as the classic underscore.
For most people, double-clicking on this 123_456_789 will select all 9 important numbers. (And maybe a trailing space, but that's a separate problem.)