[Cryptography] Missing symbol annoyance with unicode technical standard.

Viktor Dukhovni cryptography at dukhovni.org
Tue Dec 17 18:12:25 EST 2024


On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 01:12:54PM -0800, Ron Garret wrote:

> And this problem exists in plain ascii too.  ln this paragraph there
> are four ascii characters that are not what you would expect from the
> context.  | chaIIenge you to find them all without doing a hexdump.

Yes, some attention to detail required, plus a judicious choice of font
for email display.

Anyway, it is somewhat unfortunate that Emoji had to happen at all, it
is not clear that needing a glyph for a cryptography SIG warrants more
fluff in Unicode.

-- 
    Viktor.


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