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      211 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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          81 year ago

          Again you do not because the world consists of more than your interests and job description.

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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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                01 year ago

                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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          21 year ago

          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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              21 year ago

              You really can’t though. For several reasons. Which would have been apparent to you had you bothered to actually create your example link to http://аpple.com or to understand this problem.