> 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
