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[–] [email protected] 78 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

VSCode will add a yellow box around the character and tell you it's an uncommon glyph.

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_63#_unicode-highlighting

To note, this came about because it could be valid code and it's a security risk from copy/pasting malicious code. See:

https://certitude.consulting/blog/en/invisible-backdoor/