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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