[cap-talk] Firefox breaks the principle of identifiability

[Mike Linksvayer]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 05:11:27PM -0600, Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
> It seems feasible to me to choose (or design) a font that would make
> all of the 7-bit printable ASCII characters clearly distinguishable.
> For domain recognition we don't even need all the characters -- just
> the letters, digits, hyphen, and period.
> 
> This does not seem feasible to me for a character set as large as
> Unicode, and flatly impossible for Unicode in particular because
> Unicode includes characters that are *defined* to be invisible or
> to combine with other characters to yield perfect homographs.

Render non 7-bit printable ASCII characters in a different color.  Or
with a different color background.

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  Mike Linksvayer
  http://gondwanaland.com/ml/