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This got me curious what I'd read about domain names and visual normalization of Unicode, and found this: http://www.unicode.org/Public/security/revision-05/con
by nitrogen 5y ago
This got me curious what I'd read about domain names and visual normalization of Unicode, and found this: http://www.unicode.org/Public/security/revision-05/confusables.txt http://www.unicode.org/Public/security/revision-05/confusabl...
It might be useful for editors and compilers to check for tricky Unicode (lookalikes for common characters, atypical changes in direction, invisible spaces or other formatting control codes, etc.) in this era of copy/paste coding.
- tialaramex 5y agoI believe Rust will warn you if your non-ASCII identifiers are potentially confusing based on this list.