I have long advocated more intelligent GUIs to help distinguish spoofing names. I think the technique could also help for the Traditional vs Simplified Chinese issue; to help people type in one or the other but not mix. I coded up (very rough, I warn you) a quick demo of what I mean. Try:
http://www.macchiato.com/utc/despoofing Mark ————— Πόλλ’ ἠπίστατο ἔργα, κακῶς δ’ ἠπίστατο πάντα — Ὁμήρου Μαργίτῃ [For transliteration, see http://oss.software.ibm.com/cgi-bin/icu/tr] http://www.macchiato.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Cowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 18:28 Subject: Re: Unicode and Security > [EMAIL PROTECTED] scripsit: > > > Let's keep going. Latin Y, Greek Upsilon, Cyrillic U. Wait a minute, that > > Cyrillic U doesn't look *quite* the same. Oh well, it's close enough, right? > > And then there's the Cyrillic U with the straight descender, whic > actually does look just like its Latin and Greek counterparts. > I guess we just can't afford to have two kinds of Cyrillic U around: > off with their heads (or tails)! > > Unfortunately, there goes all those Turkic languages written in Cyrillic. > Well, they should Romanize anyway. In fact all languages should Romanize: > it simplifies everything soooo much, and if we get rid of diacritics > while we're at at it.... well, the ASCII Consortium > (off-net, but cached in part at http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:IRueJQ1bA-4C:www.wholehog.fsnet.c o.uk/robert/ascii/+ASCII+Consortium&hl=en) > will find it a dream come true. And there was much rejoicing. > > -- > John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There > are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language > that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. > --_The Hobbit_ > >