> On Jan 17, 2014, at 12:28, Jiahao Chen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Leaving aside the nuclear option and proselytizing for the moment, the
> Unicode consortium does helpfully (?) provide a long list of
> confusable characters
> 
> http://www.unicode.org/Public/security/revision-05/confusables.txt
> 
> and a related technical standard
> 
> http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr39/
> 
> which builds upon a general standard addressing the general security
> question of spoofing
> 
> http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr36/
> 
> Hmm, writing a text checker to detect potential confusables could
> actually make for a decent undergraduate thesis project...
> 

Eh, life's too short:

http://www.icu-project.org/apiref/icu4c/uspoof_8h.html

-Mike

> Thanks,
> 
> Jiahao Chen, PhD
> Staff Research Scientist
> MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

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