On 15:14, Mon 14 Feb 05, Lee Hosty wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, fuzzbucket wrote:
>> > Colm Buckley wrote:
> > >
> > > That's because your preferred font doesn't have glyphs for the Unicode range
> > > being used, so the renderer switches to its closest match for the spoofed
> > > character. Where these glyphs *do* exist in the preferred font (which would
> > > be a much more normal case on Windows
> > > and OS X at least), the spoofed character looks indistinguishable from the
> > > original. It is very definitely not an easy-to-spot spoof.
> > >
> >
> > I have yet to see a Windows/OSX example of the phenomenon, but I'd be
>> Windows: http://www.humanenvelope.com/ilug/idn-spoof.png
FreeBSD: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~svan/idn_spoof_firefox.png
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