diff --git a/irc/strings.go b/irc/strings.go
index be671164..c665dca5 100644
--- a/irc/strings.go
+++ b/irc/strings.go
@@ -108,26 +108,6 @@ func CasefoldName(name string) (string, error) {
 	return lowered, err
 }
 
-// "boring" names are exempt from skeletonization.
-// this is because confusables.txt considers various pure ASCII alphanumeric
-// strings confusable: 0 and O, 1 and l, m and rn. IMO this causes more problems
-// than it solves.
-func isBoring(name string) bool {
-	for i := 0; i < len(name); i += 1 {
-		chr := name[i]
-		if (chr >= 'a' && chr <= 'z') || (chr >= 'A' && chr <= 'Z') || (chr >= '0' && chr <= '9') {
-			continue // alphanumerics
-		}
-		switch chr {
-		case '$', '%', '^', '&', '(', ')', '{', '}', '[', ']', '<', '>', '=':
-			continue // benign printable ascii characters
-		default:
-			return false // potentially confusable ascii like | ' `, non-ascii
-		}
-	}
-	return true
-}
-
 // returns true if the given name is a valid ident, using a mix of Insp and
 // Chary's ident restrictions.
 func isIdent(name string) bool {
@@ -168,9 +148,7 @@ func Skeleton(name string) (string, error) {
 	// same as PRECIS:
 	name = width.Fold.String(name)
 
-	if !isBoring(name) {
-		name = confusables.Skeleton(name)
-	}
+	name = confusables.Skeleton(name)
 
 	// internationalized lowercasing for skeletons; this is much more lenient than
 	// Casefold. In particular, skeletons are expected to mix scripts (which may
diff --git a/irc/strings_test.go b/irc/strings_test.go
index 595ef7f6..d1e8b76c 100644
--- a/irc/strings_test.go
+++ b/irc/strings_test.go
@@ -128,18 +128,6 @@ func TestCasefoldName(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-func TestIsBoring(t *testing.T) {
-	assertBoring := func(str string, expected bool) {
-		if isBoring(str) != expected {
-			t.Errorf("expected [%s] to have boringness [%t], but got [%t]", str, expected, !expected)
-		}
-	}
-
-	assertBoring("warning", true)
-	assertBoring("phi|ip", false)
-	assertBoring("Νικηφόρος", false)
-}
-
 func TestIsIdent(t *testing.T) {
 	assertIdent := func(str string, expected bool) {
 		if isIdent(str) != expected {
@@ -165,15 +153,15 @@ func TestSkeleton(t *testing.T) {
 		return skel
 	}
 
-	if skeleton("warning") == skeleton("waming") {
-		t.Errorf("Oragono shouldn't consider rn confusable with m")
+	if skeleton("warning") != skeleton("waming") {
+		t.Errorf("i give up, Oragono should consider rn confusable with m")
 	}
 
 	if skeleton("Phi|ip") != "philip" {
 		t.Errorf("but we still consider pipe confusable with l")
 	}
 
-	if skeleton("ｓｍｔ") != "smt" {
+	if skeleton("ｓｍｔ") != skeleton("smt") {
 		t.Errorf("fullwidth characters should skeletonize to plain old ascii characters")
 	}
 
@@ -181,7 +169,7 @@ func TestSkeleton(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("after skeletonizing, we should casefold")
 	}
 
-	if skeleton("smｔ") != "smt" {
+	if skeleton("smｔ") != skeleton("smt") {
 		t.Errorf("our friend lover successfully tricked the skeleton algorithm!")
 	}
 
@@ -189,6 +177,10 @@ func TestSkeleton(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("we must protect against cyrillic homoglyph attacks")
 	}
 
+	if skeleton("еmily") != skeleton("emily") {
+		t.Errorf("we must protect against cyrillic homoglyph attacks")
+	}
+
 	if skeleton("РОТАТО") != "potato" {
 		t.Errorf("we must protect against cyrillic homoglyph attacks")
 	}