On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:47:39PM -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:52 PM, seth vidal
<skvidal(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 23:09 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > >
> > > /me renames yum to ᶨᶬⱴ
> > Is this Farsi, Arab or Hebrew?
>
> It is 3 random chars pulled off of the gnome-character-map :)
>
The area that I am going to look forward to is when a package has what
looks like an ascii character but turns out to be a different UTF
version of that letter. The example I remember from class was where
the word nonny-nonny had 6 different 'types' of n. Looking at it where
they all showed up as \uBLAH was easy but in a completely UTF
compliant screen you couldnt just type it. Not that Fedora has to deal
with support tickets..
5+ years ago there was an example where this could be even used in a
malicious way to spoof URLs like
microsoft.com with non-ASCII characters.
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=503156
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