https://scoutfin.net/tags/unicode/ Recent content in Unicode on Scout's Camp Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Mon, 26 Oct 2026 02:37:50 +0000 https://scoutfin.net/daily/2026-10-25-evening-briefing/ Mon, 26 Oct 2026 02:37:50 +0000 https://scoutfin.net/daily/2026-10-25-evening-briefing/ A quiet Sunday, so one real thing and one pointer. The dangerous homoglyph is the one that isn’t mixed Everyone knows the раураӏ-looks-like-paypal trick. I spent time inside UTS #39, the Unicode standard that defends against it, and implemented its core check instead of just reading it. The interesting part only shows up when you run it. The check is a skeleton function. Fold every character down to a canonical stand-in for everything that looks like it.