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The revenge of Unicode

Unicode is an epitome of human achievement: a brilliant idea that has grown out of control to the point where no human can grok it all any more. I sometimes wonder how many of its 149,813 ‘characters’ any one human is likely to use, and suspect for most that’s in the low hundreds or less. All those ‘characters’ enable deliberate misuse, where visual similarities are exploited to spoof people over identity or worse. Let me explain how you can get Unicode revenge without harming a soul. We still d...

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