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Re:How can you be fooled by the U+202E trick? (2013) by dtech on Thursday February 17, 2022 @03:52PM (#30378493)
It doesn't overwrite or obscure, it switches rendering direction. E.g. \u202E\u41\u42\u43 starts outputting from the right: \u41 from the right, then 42, then 43. That's CBA, altough in normal English you'd render that as ABC.
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