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.
mrpants@midwest.social 1 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.
yum13241@lemm.ee 1 year ago
When it’s A FUCKING SECURITY issue, I know damn well what I’m talking about.
mrpants@midwest.social 1 year ago
Again you do not because the world consists of more than your interests and job description.
yum13241@lemm.ee 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.
kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 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.
yum13241@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The problem is when you can register “apple.com” with the Cryillic A, fooling many.
The I l issue is caused by fonts, not by ASCII.