• mrpants@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    In cases where something looks stupid but your knowledge on it is almost zero it’s entirely possible that it’s not.

    The people that maintain Unicode have put a lot of thought and effort into this. Might be helpful to research why rather than assuming you have a better way despite little knowledge of the subject.

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      1 year ago

      When it’s A FUCKING SECURITY issue, I know damn well what I’m talking about.

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          1 year ago

          I know damn well what I’m talking about when someone could get scammed on “apple.com” but with a Cyrillic A.

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            1 year ago

            You know the problem but not the set of reasonable or practical solutions.

            Anyways I and l look identical too in many fonts. Should we make them the same letter?

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              No, but that’s what Unicode does.

              The solution is to force font creators to be fucking reasonable, just like how the Cyrillic A looks exactly like the Latin A. They are the same letter. The letters L and I are totally different (in handwriting at least)

              They already did that for CJK. Make characters that look the same in handwriting b have be same codepointer.

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        I and l also look identical in many fonts. So you already have this problem in ascii. (To say nothing of all the non-printing characters!)

        If your security relies on a person being able to tell the difference between two characters controlled by an attacker your security is bad.

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          The problem is when you can register “apple.com” with the Cryillic A, fooling many.

          The I l issue is caused by fonts, not by ASCII.