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kccqzy | 4 days ago

If you allow users to submit arbitrary Unicode string as text, why would you need to check confusables.txt? Whose confusion are you guarding against?

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zahlman|4 days ago

I suppose: other users, if you store the first user's text and transmit it to another one.

kccqzy|4 days ago

Well then it’s a failure of UI design if you think this can cause confusion. In any UGC design it should be extremely clear which text is generated by another user and which belongs to the site itself.