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Two identical A's can mean different things to a computer

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An absolute nightmare for string validation. The letter 'A' in the Latin alphabet looks exactly like the Cyrillic letter 'A', but they possess completely different numerical values under the hood, ruining text parsing worldwide.

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Two identical A's can mean different things to a computer
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