yum13241 comments on D or d come on

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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[–] kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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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[–] yum13241@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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.

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[–] kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years 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.

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