Re: Security Issues

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Thu Mar 24 2005 - 23:32:58 CST

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    Mark Davis <mark dot davis at jtcsv dot com> wrote:

    > I agree, in general. Allowing the ROOK chess symbol is not likely to
    > cause any problem.
    >
    > However, doing a full sweep for confusability is a bit daunting; look
    > at all the characters on idn-chars.html (you are welcome to start now
    > ;-). So people are proposing at least as an interim step, to reduce
    > the likelyhood of problems by excluding non-required characters.

    I confess that the daunting scope of idn-chars is one reason I haven't
    kept up with my promise to help with the "confusables" list, for which I
    apologize.

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



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