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Re:How can you be fooled by the U+202E trick? (2013) by dotancohen on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @04:28AM (#30357925) 

  > With unicode, I really don't know what to do. What strings need to be sanitized (or validated)?
Just yesterday I filed a bug on the KDE terminal emulator [1] for stripping away too many characters. I'm sure that the fine devs had no idea which characters are safe to leave in and which are not. I certainly have no idea myself.

[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450219

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