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I'm imagining coding with some random "i" being a different completely undistinguishable character from the English "i". Or people writing your name and not mat
by makeitdouble 1y ago
I'm imagining coding with some random "i" being a different completely undistinguishable character from the English "i". Or people writing your name and not matching in their DB because their local "i" is not your "i".
It's a potential issue already depending on your script, and CJK also has this funny full English alphabet but all in double-width characters that makes it PITA for people who can't distinguish the two. But having it on a character as common as "i" would feel specially hellish to me.
- sebstefan 1y agoIt wouldn't matter There's already this problem for cyrillic 'e' and latin 'e' and hundreds of other characters People use it to create lookalike URLs and phish people https://www.pcmag.com/news/chrome-blocks-crafty-url-phishing-method https://www.pcmag.com/news/chrome-blocks-crafty-url-phishing...
- makeitdouble 1y agoCyrillic 'e' is isolated in that you switch script when writing it. I'd compare it to the greek X. Turkish isn't on a fully separate script, most letters are standard ascii and only a few are special (it's closer to French or German with the accentuated characters), so you don't have the explicit switch, it's always mixed.
- sebstefan 1y agoThen you have the greek question mark ;
- alexey-salmin 1y ago> But having it on a character as common as "i" would feel specially hellish to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotted_I_(Cyrillic) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotted_I_(Cyrillic)