Odp: Why is (vv) -> (w) not amongst the Confusables?

Rebecca Bettencourt beckiergb at gmail.com
Wed Nov 29 02:30:06 CST 2023


On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 11:44 PM Giacomo Catenazzi via Unicode <
unicode at corp.unicode.org> wrote:

> Confusable is a very important property for security (phishing,
> scamming, etc.), and it is important also because it is used by non
> "Unicode" people. Other properties of Unicode may requires some
> knowledge of Unicode standard/book and so scripts and language
> difference, but confusable should be usable by people without deep
> knowledge of e.g. Cyrillic or Indic scripts.


Back in the day I witnessed so many schoolmates being phished by r n y
space login . com. So much that I'm almost convinced it's what led to r n →
m being added to the confusables list in the first place.
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