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

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monk@lemmy.unboiled.info
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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.

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arthur@lemmy.zip
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Or the non-ascii character itself.

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monk@lemmy.unboiled.info
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Doesn’t work if it’s invisible.

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xilophor@programming.dev
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what about a box around it?

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