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Wed Nov 3 13:49:31 GMT 2021
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On Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 08:13:11AM -0500, Andrew Singleton wrote:
Davin beat me to it.
The idea of 'well lets just use the bold unicode' is... an anti feature for
anyone needing anything adaptive, and goes counter to offloading
presentation elements onto the client.
Alyssa Rosenzweig has written about the accessibility problems caused byabusing Unicode for presentation here:
gemini://rosenzweig.io/gemlog/2021-04-04-your-gemlog-may-not-be-accessible.gmi
On a different tack, here's Nervuri on how Unicode homoglyphs can beused in fingerprinting attacks on published text and how such things canbe detected and avoided:
gemini://rawtext.club/~nervuri/stega.gmi
For more on homoglyphs (distinct characters with visually similarappearance):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoglyph