From: Erik van der Poel (erik@vanderpoel.org)
Date: Thu Feb 24 2005 - 12:11:08 CST
Tom Emerson wrote:
> I'm not sure I buy into that. Sometimes the differences are *very*
> minor, and with smallish screen fonts may be difficult to see,
> especially when scanning text. Spotting the difference between 15
> strokes and 16 strokes is difficult for anyone.
Can you say "lawsuit"? Seriously, we can't stop the phishers dead in
their tracks, but some will be prosecuted, and the browsers can only
take steps to mitigate (e.g. by using a larger font for Han, as has
already been mentioned in the UTR).
> Add in the thousands
> of ideographs added in Plane 2 and you are asking for phishing
> expeditions.
Um, the Japanese registry only allows the basic set JIS X 0208:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/idn/jp-japanese.html
Erik
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