Brian Harvey scripsit:

> So, does EQUAL? return true for two characters that look the same but are
> represented by different Unicode codes?  (I vote yes, even though it's
> likely to be time-consuming.)

Definitely not.  There is little utility to treating
A, Alpha, and Cyrillic A all the same.  For when
visual identification is very important, as in DNS names,
http://unicode.org/reports/tr39/data/confusables.txt is your friend and
can be implemented as a kind of special-purpose equality.

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