Charles is always good for a fun link or two, an the mail he sent a while back is no exception:

Hi Michael;

Don't know if the above subject line comes through okay; just wondering if characters whose glyphs are mirrored or inverted transformations of other characters would or should be counted into the confusables.txt list.  There are some sites having fun with those; at first glance it would look like it's just flipping the display around but it's actually making use of codepoints to do it.

http://home.sus.mcgill.ca/~moyogo/unicode/reverse.html
http://moyogo.blogspot.com/2005/11/fun-with-unicode-issn-i-l-inb-dis-id.html

Chuck

I have a hard time considering them confusables since people would be unlikely really confuse them. I mean, would you click on ɯoɔ˙ʇɟosoɹɔᴉɯ˙ʍʍʍ thinking it was www.microsoft.com? :-)

In any case, still a fun link from way back when, especially as people continue to think about the issue with confusables in URLs....

 

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