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Unicode tricks in pull requests: Do review tools warn us? (semanticdiff.com)

submitted 10 months ago by DarkPlayer@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 45 points 10 months ago (12 children)

Homoglyphs? Invisible text? Bidirectional text? Just highlight every line that goes beyond ASCII with yellow warning colors and require to vet it. Maybe make localization data an exception.

[–] arthur@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Or the non-ascii character itself.

[–] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't work if it's invisible.

[–] xilophor@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

what about a box around it?

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