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Confusables are a real problem.

Some Cyrillic and Greek letters even look like Latin letters. And in some fonts '1' (one) and 'l' (ell) look the same even in Latin.

Dealing with these is much harder than with normalization forms. And confusables are a source of serious security headaches.



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