wanderingstan/Confusables
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Simple library for matching a string to another string that is same but has letters that only *look* the same as original string
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I wrote such a library for Python here: https://github.com/wanderingstan/Confusables My use case was to thwart spammers in our company’s channels, but I suppose it could be used to also normalize accent encoding issues. Basically converts…
comment by wanderingstan · 2024-03-24 · in The ü/ü Conundrum -
…Unicode text by creating regex expressions; our company’s chat was being overrun by spammers. https://github.com/wanderingstan/Confusables From the readme: E.g. "℮1೦" would match "Hello" "Hello" gets turned into the following regex of…
comment by wanderingstan · 2024-01-20 · in The revenge of Unicode -
…but the Readme hadn't been updated to reflect the lack of backslashes. Thanks for the find! Commit: https://github.com/wanderingstan/Confusables/commit/c4121428...
comment by wanderingstan · 2022-08-21 · in Unicode Utilities: Confusables -
Years ago I created a Python library for generating regex to match confusables: https://github.com/wanderingstan/Confusables For example, "𝓗℮𝐥1೦" matches "Hello". "Hello" gets turned into the following regex of character classes:…
comment by wanderingstan · 2022-08-21 · in Unicode Utilities: Confusables -
…strings obfuscated this way. Was critical when moderating our telegram channel before an ICO. https://github.com/wanderingstan/Confusables E.g. "𝓗℮𝐥1೦" would match "Hello"
comment by wanderingstan · 2021-09-28 · in You either die an MVP or live long enough to build content moderation -
…strings obfuscated this way. Was critical when moderating our telegram channel before an ICO. https://github.com/wanderingstan/Confusables E.g. "𝓗℮𝐥1೦" would match "Hello"
comment by wanderingstan · 2021-09-28 · in You either die an MVP or live long enough to build content moderation