Post #1225396

2026-04-05 15:40 UTC

@KayOhtie @Li @fizzyizzy05 @0x4d6165 I think they should, without regard to content or intent, parse anything that a reasonable sighted reader would parse as being intended as funky-looking latin text as latin text. The one that would I think be the hardest one to parse correctly is "faux cyrillic" since there there would be some overlap between that and misspelled real cyrillic, and so ambiguity which to parse it as.

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@KayOhtie@blimps.xyz 2026-04-05 15:46

@zuthal @Li @fizzyizzy05 @0x4d6165 But that's the question, how do you define that? What about an arrangement that shouldn't be read that way but looks like it could? I personally find the take of "reasonable sighted reader", even as a sighted reader, to be dismissive of the purpose of the characters in their usual context. I think the real fix is for more platforms to offer text formatting for posts and maybe even display names. It doesn't solve everyone doing it for weirder looking characters but it at least solves the reasons most people use the bold or italic or strike through looking characters -- because they can't merely use underscores, slashes, or asterisks for formatting it.

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