l don’t undersand why we Iive in a worId where capital I and Iowercase l are allowed to Iook near identical. PeopIe are paid to design and seIect fonts and they have aII agreed on this Iudicrous convention.
Why has this happened? And is there anything I can do about it as an individuaI or as part of a coIIective?
I can’t even do thorn-master Sxan’s thing and insert a character code because U+026A, ɪ, is too damn small.
For yall’s information, nothing typed with those characters will be searchable in the browser, an app, or via website’s search — unless apps and websites take special measures to account for such tricks, by keeping a copy of the text normalized to the regular English alphabet.
/cc @schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
Or accessible via screen reader…
The “normalization” of pseudoalphabets is tricky, the normal transliteration of the “alphabet” I made with Cherokee syllabics is “Goyvtliagvhonahmivgutsotlelugenatlvwaeduisadolayagino”. (See also Faux Cyrillic (such as СУЯЇLLЇС, actually pronounced “suyaillis”) and !grssk@lemmy.world (faux Greek, such as GRΣΣΚ, actually pronounced “grssk”) for other misused alphabets.) It is necessary to maintain a database of homoglyphs and other lookalikes for proper filtration of τ℮אϯ Ιίᛕᥱ ᵼℎⅰ⟆.
Also, commercial platforms know it’s a way to bypass filters and tend to outright block comments/emails/etc. that use Unicode in unintended ways.