Re:Zero-Width Characters: Invisibly fingerprinting text
by niij on Monday January 01, 2018 @01:50PM
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I had this happen to me once (and only once, I learned my lesson). Our professor gave us a PDF with the problem description and it had a bit of code in it we were to put into our final program. Well, when I copy and pasted it some of the spaces copied as non-ASCII space.
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Re:Zero-Width Characters: Invisibly fingerprinting text
by chuckdries on Monday January 01, 2018 @04:56PM
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Oh god pasting code from a PDF, that brings me back.
Doesn't your editor handle that? I don't exactly remember but I kinda remember having a button to convert pasted characters to ascii (mostly used for those annoying stylized unicode quotes)
Re:Zero-Width Characters: Invisibly fingerprinting text
by niij on Thursday January 04, 2018 @06:38PM
(#16075136)
Apparently Atom didn't/doesn't have that feature, at least to automatically display when problematic characters are present. I believe I ended up taking a hex editor to my code to see what was wrong, since it was only a single loop that appeared to stop the compilation.