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Re: highlighting non-ASCII characters


From: Jason Rumney
Subject: Re: highlighting non-ASCII characters
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:06:48 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux)

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> There is no single heuristic that can be used to identify
>> "suspicious" characters.
>
> Maybe within the scope of "social engineering attacks where some text
> (e.g. a host name) looks like something well-known but actually uses
> funny Unicode chars", some people have come up with something like
> a list of known problems (typically Unicode points that are usually
> displayed identically).

Yes, within that context suspicious has a clear enough meaning. But the
cases others were discussing seemed more like cases of mismatched
encodings that they wanted to be flagged more obviously.




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