• yum13241@lemm.ee
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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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          1 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.