Confusables.txt might be too sensitive

[Mark Dawson]

Dear Unicode Mailing List,

I am a user of the metamask <https://metamask.io/> browser extension (which
is a cryptocurrency wallet). My name always gets flagged as a potential
scam simply because it contains the small Latin letter "m" (codepoint 006D).
Someone contributing to the metamask project had the idea
<https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension/pull/9187> to give a
warning message if someone is using a name that might contain suspicious
characters. Seems like a good idea to me.

The contributor decided to use TR39's confusable.txt
<https://www.unicode.org/Public/security/14.0.0/confusablesSummary.txt>
file to flag suspicious characters. On line 3344 of the confusables.txt, it
lists the small Latin letter "m" (codepoint 006D) as a source character for
a confusable. Is this intentional?

No other small Latin letter is flagged as a confusable. (Not even the
letter "o"). Would Unicode consider removing the small Latin letter "m" as
a source on the confusable.txt?

Thanks,

Mark

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Mark Dawson
mark at markdawson.io
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