[cap-talk] Firefox breaks the principle of identifiability

Ka-Ping Yee cap-talk at zesty.ca
Mon Feb 7 20:42:55 EST 2005


On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> > 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.

How do you render a zero-width non-breaking space in a different colour?

:)

Actually, i think your suggestion is a pretty good idea.  Some invisible
characters would still need to be outlawed, but for the remaining ones,
the use of colour could help.


-- ?!ng


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