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Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to reveal zero-width c... by LVB on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @01:43PM (#16757063)
Further tangent: a colleague and I talked about creating a derivative of one of the programmer fonts, replacing smart/curly quotes and another such nuisances with unmistakeable indicators.
Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to reveal zero-width c... by sharpercoder on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @01:54PM (#16757180)
This would be a useful feature for any programming font. I can totally imagine writing exploits through zero-width characters; smart insertion into interpreted strings (scanners/parsers) can potentially insert a security leak by an attacker. Though input can come from many places off course, this would at least make one vector visible.
Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to reveal zero-width c... by peteretep on Thursday April 05, 2018 @12:25AM (#16761758)
You could probably just invert any non-ASCII character, and you could probably do this programmatically over an existing font.