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Re:How can you be fooled by the U+202E trick? (2013) by armada651 on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @10:28AM (#30361193)
This seems like more of a UI issue than anything. Could be fixed by simply presenting the user with a prompt asking whether they want to allow this file to execute as a program if it's missing the permissions.
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Re:How can you be fooled by the U+202E trick? (2013) by kazinator on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @06:12PM (#30367161)
Honoring that right-to-left reversal character is also a "UI Issue".

The Windows UI could just render that character as a tofu box, and not evoke its reversal semantics.

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