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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So ... is allowed, or all whitespace, or Zalgo text.

I mean, on the one hand, I guess why be restrictive, but on the other I feel like requiring something that looks like language somehow might be a good idea to avoid edge cases and attacks.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    could you have .​.? I assume most terminals would just spell out .\x200b.?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Or use a hair space so it looks almost the same. Or .. but you've added the right-to-left unicode character. I'm guessing there's something that looks a lot like a period, too.

    If ext4 doesn't include restrictions terminals probably should.

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