[rfc-i] Pagination requirements
Julian Reschke
julian.reschke at gmx.de
Tue May 15 15:02:36 PDT 2012
On 2012-05-16 00:00, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> ...
> P.S. Here's a relevant paragraph from a discussion about visually
> similar characters in the security considerations of an I-D I'm working
> on (draft-ietf-precis-framework)...
>
> However, the problem is made more serious by introducing the full
> range of Unicode code points into protocol strings. For example, the
> characters U+13DA U+13A2 U+13B5 U+13AC U+13A2 U+13AC U+13D2 from the
> Cherokee block look similar to the US-ASCII characters "STPETER" as
> they might look when presented in a "creative" font.
>
> It would be helpful to include the actual characters, not just the
> Unicode codepoint numbers:
>
> However, the problem is made more serious by introducing the full
> range of Unicode code points into protocol strings. For example, the
> characters U+13DA U+13A2 U+13B5 U+13AC U+13A2 U+13AC U+13D2 from the
> Cherokee block, i.e., "ᏚᎢᎵᏋᎢᏋᏒ", look similar to the US-ASCII
> characters "STPETER" as they might look when presented in a
> "creative" font.
>...
+1
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