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27.1; Detect impossible email addresses better

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Message #317 received at 51733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 51733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Subject: Re: bug#51733: 27.1; Detect impossible email addresses better
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 15:28:51 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Why? .ru is a top-level domain, it doesn't affect what should be
> before the dot, I think?
>
> If you replace "Сгсе.ru" with "Cгсе.ru", you do get a warning.

Yes.  But "Сгсе.ru" is a whole-script confusable with "Crce.ru", and is
therefore suspicious.

>> Is that what they mean here?
>
> I'm not sure I understand the purpose of finding which scripts
> "contain a whole-script confusable with a string X".  What are we
> supposed to do with the resulting list?

I think this standard was written by somebody with a PhD in Philosophy,
and not a programmer, so the language is very high falutin'.

So they're not actually suggesting that a list should be made, but the
result should be mathematically equivalent with the result of the
mathematical algorithm described.  I just don't understand what he's
saying here.

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