A Gemini-style proposal

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On Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 08:13:11AM -0500, Andrew Singleton wrote:
> Davin beat me to it.
> 
> The idea of 'well lets just use the bold unicode' is... an anti feature for
> anyone needing anything adaptive, and goes counter to offloading
> presentation elements onto the client.

Alyssa Rosenzweig has written about the accessibility problems caused by
abusing Unicode for presentation here:

gemini://rosenzweig.io/gemlog/2021-04-04-your-gemlog-may-not-be-accessible.gmi

On a different tack, here's Nervuri on how Unicode homoglyphs can be
used in fingerprinting attacks on published text and how such things can
be detected and avoided:

gemini://rawtext.club/~nervuri/stega.gmi

For more on homoglyphs (distinct characters with visually similar
appearance):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoglyph