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Re:Glassworm Is Back: A New Wave of Invisible Unicode Attack... by _flux on Sunday March 15, 2026 @02:09PM (#47390068)
Arguably them being in Unicode is an accessibility issue, unless we thought to standardize GIF names, and then that already sounds a lot like Unicode.
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Re:Glassworm Is Back: A New Wave of Invisible Unicode Attack... by WalterBright on Sunday March 15, 2026 @02:20PM (#47390206)
How is it an accessibility issue? HTML allows things like little gif files. I've done this myself when I wrote text that contained Egyptian hieroglyphs. It works just fine!
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Re:Glassworm Is Back: A New Wave of Invisible Unicode Attack... by _flux on Sunday March 15, 2026 @02:43PM (#47390461)
I mean if you don't have sight.
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Re:Glassworm Is Back: A New Wave of Invisible Unicode Attack... by WalterBright on Sunday March 15, 2026 @02:46PM (#47390501)
Then use words. Or tooltips (HTML supports that). I use tooltips on my web pages to support accessibility for screen readers. Unicode should not be attempting to badly reinvent HTML.
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