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On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Henrik Faber <hfaber@invalid.net> wrote:
> What about =C3=97 vs x? Or =C3=8C vs =C3=8D vs =C3=8E vs =C3=8F vs =C4=A8=
 vs =C4=AA vs =C4=AB vs =C4=AC vs =C4=AD vs =C4=AE vs
> =C4=AF vs I vs =C4=B0? Do you think if you need to maintain such code you=
'll
> immediately know the difference between the 13 (!) different "I"s I just
> happened to pull out randomly you need to chose and how to get it? What
> about =C8=9C vs =C8=9D? Or =C8=A2 vs =C8=A3? Or =C8=B8 vs =C8=B9? Or d vs=
 =D4=80 vs =D4=81 vs =D4=83 vs =D4=82? Or =D6=81 vs g?
> Or =D5=BD vs u?

If they're different characters, they're different. It's not unlike
the confusion you can already get between uppercase I and lowercase l,
or between uppercase and lowercase of the same letter, or between rn
and m, or between any other of myriad confusingly-similar pairs that
can be found just in ASCII.

Of course, SOMEBODY is going to make use of those to improve upon this
sort of code:

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Uppity.aspx

ChrisA