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Re:Phishing with Unicode Domains by matt4077 on Thursday April 20, 2017 @09:37AM (#14156469)
In what universe is ASCII "common ground"? And in what universe is a few scammers here and there "pandora's box"?

Some people in this threat seem almost eager to throw out any attempt at respecting cultures other than their own using the earliest convenient excuse.

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Re:Phishing with Unicode Domains by Dylan16807 on Thursday April 20, 2017 @12:54PM (#14158417)
> In what universe is ASCII "common ground"?

Excluding EBCDIC, which has the same characters, can you name a major character set that doesn't start with a carbon copy of ASCII? Shift JIS starts with ASCII. Big5 starts with ASCII. Every code page starts with ASCII. Unicode, of course, starts with ASCII. Look at just about any (physical) keyboard for any language and it will support ASCII.

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