From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Sun Apr 03 2005 - 13:15:58 CST
On 03/04/2005 17:27, Doug Ewell wrote:
> ...
>
>There's also a significant controversy surrounding the ability of some
>evil person to register "paypaɫ.com" or similar, using a letter like
>U+026B that most people in the world aren't aware exists, ...
>
The standard should not pander to ignorance. Don't forget that there are
billions of Chinese, Indians etc who are not familiar even with our
basic ABC.
>... and using it
>to dupe innocent consumers. People are running around screaming that
>internationalized domain names are evil for allowing these characters,
>and that Unicode is evil for including them in the first place. This
>"security" thread is an attempt to work out the best solution for all.
>
>
>
I see the point. But if we are going to allow U+0142 to support Polish,
and so to allow anyone to register "paypał.com", then there is not much
difference allowing them to use "paypaɫ.com", with U+026B. Perhaps
U+0142 and U+026B can be listed as lookalikes. Actually, does anyone
want U+026B? This is not a click. Perhaps you were thinking of U+01C2.
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