Comment on D or d come on
mrpants@midwest.social 11 months agoIn 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.
yum13241@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I know damn well what I’m talking about when someone could get scammed on “apple.com” but with a Cyrillic A.
mrpants@midwest.social 11 months ago
You know the problem but not the set of reasonable or practical solutions.
Anyways I and l look identical too in many fonts.
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.
yum13241@lemm.ee 11 months 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.
kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months 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 аpple.com or to understand this problem.