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Re:Fake WhatsApp update from “WhatsApp Inc.” with Unicode wh... by nerdponx on Saturday November 04, 2017 @05:41PM (#15627047)
All names get reduced using Unicode normalization.
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Re:Fake WhatsApp update from “WhatsApp Inc.” with Unicode wh... by rspeer on Sunday November 05, 2017 @11:52AM (#15630221)
Recently, thousands of users were duped into installing "АdВIосk РIuѕ" in Chrome. Every one of those letters is Unicode normalized.

(Hint: it's not just the I's masquerading as l's.)

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Re:Fake WhatsApp update from “WhatsApp Inc.” with Unicode wh... by nerdponx on Sunday November 05, 2017 @10:05PM (#15633225)
Fair enough. I'm a little surprised that those hold up under NFK normalization. А sure as heck seems compatible with A.
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