alt Hacker NewsAnother dum dum Unicode idea is having multiple code points with identical glyphs.
Rule of thumb: two Unicode sequences that look identical when printed should consist of the same code points.
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So you think that the letters in the Greek and Cyrillic alphabets which are printed identically to the Latin A should not exist?
And, for example, Greek words containing this letter should be encoded with a mix of Latin and Greek characters?
As far as I know, glyphs are determined by the font and rendering engine. They're not in the Unicode standard.
I don't think that would help much. There are also characters which are similar but not the same and I don't think humans can spot the differences unless they are actively looking for them which most of the time people are not. If only one of two glyphs which are similar appear in the text nobody would likely notice, expectation bias will fuck you over.
If anything, Unicode should have had more disambiguated characters. Han unification was a mistake, and lower case dotted Turkish i and upper case dotless Turkish I should exist so that toUpper and toLower didn't need to know/guess at a locale to work correctly.