Re:Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?
by phkn1 on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @05:17PM
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Depending on the system you use to view the text, many of the characters are actually printed using non-Roman lookalike characters that still render as the "usual" ones.
In OSX / Firefox I see the usual text in the web view, but in source view there's a variation in shading between characters, in what should be an unadorned monospaced font. Viewing the same source in Chrome shows the trick for what it is...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/oj9cqlh3kh90zep/Screenshot%202016-...
Subtle and not always visible due to differences in display normalization in various libraries? Way out of my depth for system fonts / encoding issues. But hopefully the above shows what I'm talking about. Could there be some data hidden in the lookalike string values?
http://www.lookout.net/2012/04/generating-confusable-lookali...
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Richard_Stallman