See also:
https://golang.org/issue/20115 (proposal: cmd/vet: detect homograph attacks)
https://golang.org/issue/20209 (proposal: spec: disallow LTR/RTL characters 
in string literals?)
https://golang.org/issue/20210 (proposal: spec: disallow unicode import 
paths to avoid punycode attacks)

On Monday, June 14, 2021 at 10:15:16 AM UTC-4 drc...@google.com wrote:

> I was going to ask, "how do they define/measure that?", decided to look at 
> the Rust code, and found 
> http://www.unicode.org/Public/security/10.0.0/confusables.txt
> So there's a defined source and everything.
>
> On Friday, June 11, 2021 at 5:48:05 PM UTC-4 Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 2:32 PM Delta <deltae...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Jun 12, 2021 3:00:01 AM Ian Lance Taylor <ia...@golang.org>:
>> >
>> > > Which context do you mean? You said "the Go tool." Do you mean
>> > > something in the tool, or do you mean something in the language?
>> > >
>> > > For the tool, when does this come up?
>> >
>> > I don't know why I wrote this. I saw somewhere a post on rustc giving
>> > help message in case error was produced due to use of look alike Unicode
>> > characters like Greek question mark in place of ;
>> >
>> > I thought that is cool.
>> >
>> > I am sorry.
>>
>> No need to apologize. It's an interesting idea. There is nothing
>> similar in Go today.
>>
>> Ian
>>
>

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