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		AnthonyMouse on Oct 23, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mimic – abusing Unicode to create tragedy > It's really difficult to do the right thing here. There is a fairly good solution to this for things like code editors and URLs or search strings in browsers: If a string contains a non-ASCII code point that is a homograph for an ASCII character, swap the text and background colors.

wodenokoto on Oct 23, 2015 [–]

I meant the right approach to designating code points.

Allan_Smithee on Oct 26, 2015 | [–]

In today's lesson, wodenokoto learned that real life is infinitely more complicated than San Francisco startups would have you believe.

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