Google Is Battling a Russian Spammer Over the Use of the Letter 'G'

Re:Google Is Battling a Russian Spammer Over the Use of the ... by usernam on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @07:35AM (#13540199)

Ironically this is made worse by some fontsets such as Noto, that unify the look over a variety of scripts (which is something you normally _want_).

This is going to be fun to watch. Unicode domain names are a can of worms.

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Re:Google Is Battling a Russian Spammer Over the Use of the ... by planteen on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @09:03AM (#13540742)

Yep.

"Unicode is too complex to ever be secure" - Bruce Schneier

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Re:Google Is Battling a Russian Spammer Over the Use of the ... by agumonkey on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @09:25AM (#13540897)

Could be made a standard to signal non ascii chars by programs. A (red squared g)oogle might grab attention. Maybe a full underline ..

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Re:Google Is Battling a Russian Spammer Over the Use of the ... by xiaoma on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @01:33PM (#13543458)

That might be nice for you but it would be annoying for those of us who use non-latin scripts.

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Re:Google Is Battling a Russian Spammer Over the Use of the ... by agumonkey on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @01:51PM (#13543671)

Good point .. maybe a dual set based on the user locale..

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