Comment on D or d come on
Tranus@programming.dev 11 months agoWell letters don’t really have a single canonical shape. There are many acceptable ways of rendering each. While two letters might usually look the same, it is very possible that some shape could be acceptable for one but not the other. So, it makes sense to distinguish between them in binary representation. That allows the interpreting software to determine if it cares about the difference or not.
Also, the Unicode code tables do mention which characters look (nearly) identical, so it’s definitely possible to make a program interpret something like a Greek question mark the same as a semicolon. I guess it’s just that no one has bothered, since it’s such a rare edge case.
yum13241@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Why are the Latin “a” and the Cryilic “a” THE FUCKING SAME?
mrpants@midwest.social 11 months 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.
yum13241@lemm.ee 11 months ago
When it’s A FUCKING SECURITY issue, I know damn well what I’m talking about.
mrpants@midwest.social 11 months ago
Again you do not because the world consists of more than your interests and job description.
kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months 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.