Re: IDN problem.... :(

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Sat Feb 12 2005 - 00:51:54 CST

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    Kenneth Whistler <kenw at sybase dot com> wrote:

    > People thrashing this topic around may be interested to know
    > that the UTC, which met just this week, is considering the
    > possibility of defining a "confusables mapping". That *would*
    > be something aimed at being a comprehensive mechanism for
    > dealing with the issue of confusable glyph shapes between
    > scripts (or others, for that matter) that everyone is obsessing
    > over regarding this spoofing issue. Or at least, if not
    > really dealing with the issue, defining it much more
    > precisely than tends to be done by people picking up the
    > book and looking up random instances of lookalikes.

    I am truly surprised that UTC would even attempt such a list. I can't
    imagine where one would draw a line such that these two characters here
    are similar enough to be considered spoof buddies, and those two over
    there are not.

    It is *at least* as slippery a slope as definitively mapping traditional
    Chinese to simplified and vice versa (which is more than the existing
    kSimplifiedVariant and kTraditionalVariant fields attempt to do).

    Good luck.

    -Doug Ewell
     Fullerton, California
     http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/



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