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D or d come on (i.imgur.com)

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[–] mrpants@midwest.social 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Again you do not because the world consists of more than your interests and job description.

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[–] yum13241@lemm.ee -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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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[–] mrpants@midwest.social 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

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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[–] yum13241@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years 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.

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