e-gold and e-go1d

2008-11-29 Thread James A. Donald
To implement Zooko's triangle, one has to detect names that may look alike, for example e-gold and e-go1d This is a lot of code. Has someone already written such a collision detector that I could swipe? The algorithm is to map all lookalike glyphs to canonical glyphs - thus l and 1 are mapped

Re: e-gold and e-go1d

2008-11-29 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Nov 29, 2008, at 9:18 AM, James A. Donald wrote: The algorithm is to map all lookalike glyphs to canonical glyphs The definition of lookalike glyphs depends on the choice of font and variant, and Unicode wraps the whole problem in a lovely layer of hell. If I had to do this, I'd