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

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Or the non-ascii character itself.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't work if it's invisible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

what about a box around it?

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