Confusables handling

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To prevent name spoofing, name resolution should be implemented the same way in CLI and in browser.

But the problem is larger than just character case and perhaps IDNA you mentionned in another topic could help:

Tools for Everyone - international and beyond

Having tools that cater for everyone, is most important… and SAFE is one step ahead of the unsafe internet already. IDN and international urls There is an accepted standard for urls, to allow use of international character sets. Internationalized Domain Names (IDNA), sees urls transformed to form xn–blah and back again. So, browsers can choose to display the international url or the xn-- and look to the xn-- address in both cases. This get round one of the problems with how the old …