On Saturday, October 19, 2013 8:40:37 PM UTC+5:30, Roy Smith wrote: > Zero Piraeus wrote: > > > For example, a miscreant may create the username 'míguel' in order to > > pose as another user 'miguel', relying on other users inattentiveness. > > Asciifying is one way of reducing the risk of that. > > > Determining if two strings are "almost the same" is not easy. If míguel > and miguel are to be considered the same, then why not also consider > michael to be the same? Or, for that matter, mike, mikey, or mick? > There's no easy answer, and what's the right answer for some > applications will be the wrong answer for others.
I did not know till quite recently that Jean and Ivan were just good ol John -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
