On Sat, 12 May 2018, RW wrote:

On Sat, 12 May 2018 10:24:32 -0700 (PDT)
John Hardin wrote:


It has the fairly-common tactic of putting a spam website domain into
the message subject, but it has a new twist: it replaces the period
with a fairly-equivalent multibyte glyph.


I looked it up and it's an "Ideographic Full Stop", the Chinese
equivalent of a full stop. Unfortunately it's not something that can be
punished for just being there.

I'm not proposing that. I'm proposing the URI parser should recognize "Ideographic Full Stop" (and potentially other equivalent glyphs if there are any) as equivalent to an ASCII period.

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