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I think we should have at least an agreed upon subset of Unicode that squashed characters which are deemed too visually similar into singular code points, elimi
by samtho 4y ago
I think we should have at least an agreed upon subset of Unicode that squashed characters which are deemed too visually similar into singular code points, eliminating the concept of caps vs lowercase (if the language supports it), and remove any lexical control characters to get an analogue if the the “pure” hostname-style charset we enjoy in ASCII that we find in RFCs standards, for example. I’m probably naïve about this, but this is how we treat similar problems within specific applications of the ASCII charset.
- Avamander 4y agoThere certainly are some things that could've done better and I guess still some things we could do better avoiding past mistakes. But I have a strong bad feeling what's here already is going to remain here for the foreseaable future and the best we're gonna get is better handling rather than large changes to unicode itself.
- bawolff 4y agoWell we certainly could do better, we're never be perfect on this. After all, paypa1.com is the same attack and doesn't even use unicode.