ks2048 10 months ago

There's the problem that "appears" is a visible phenomenon and unicode strings can contain non-visible characters and multiple ways to represent the same visible information. Normalization is supposed to help here, but some sites may fail to do this or do incorrectly, etc.

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josephcsible 10 months ago | parent [-]

But the MRZ of a passport doesn't contain any of those problem characters.

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ks2048 10 months ago | parent [-]

But on some random website, with people copy-pasting from who-knows-what, they will have to normalize or validate, etc. to deal with such characters.

	▲	josephcsible 10 months ago \| parent [-]
		The point is if the standard were to enter it like in the MRZ, it would be easy to validate.