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Unicode tricks in pull requests: Do review tools warn us? (semanticdiff.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Homoglyphs? Invisible text? Bidirectional text? Just highlight every line that goes beyond ASCII with yellow warning colors and require to vet it. Maybe make localization data an exception.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (3 children)

This doesn't work for code bases written in non-English languages. Especially east asian languages.

Any line containing an identifier that is also a word would be highlighted.

More and more programming languages are supporting unicode identifiers for this use case.

[–] mrkite 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

So it won't work for 0.0001% of all github projects.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I'd suggest to have the occasional look at the "most popular repos" ranking. It's about 50% Chinese.

Super-interesting sometimes as it shows completely different tech trends.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I know right.

It's wild that an American company primarily doing business in the West would have a bias towards English.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Yeah, just don't. Allowing to code in anything other than English is a disservice, plain and simple.

Inb4, I'm not being US-centric, Latin ain't even my native alphabet.

[–] actual_patience 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Very simple solution actually. Here I was thinking we'd need AI to solve it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

People would call that solution AI these days. If it has at least one if statement then they call it AI

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

We say we have AI to get VC funding

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Or the non-ascii character itself.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't work if it's invisible.

[–] xilophor 1 points 11 months ago

what about a box around it?