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When u look for Dangerous Unicode Characters for Testing (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by einfach_orangensaft@feddit.de to c/linuxhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] megane_kun@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even after looking up U+3164 (Hangul Filler), and reading (and rereading) the quoted paragraph:

The Hangul Filler character is used to introduce eight-byte Hangul composition sequences and to stand in for an absent element (usually an empty final) in such a sequence. Unicode includes the Wansung code Hangul Filler in the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block for round-trip compatibility, but uses its own system (with its own, differently used, filler characters) for composing Hangul. The KS X 1001 Hangul composition system is not used in Unicode, and the filler renders merely as an empty space; KS X 1001 composition sequences using modern jamo may be mapped to precomposed characters in Unicode. For round-trip compatibility, Unicode also includes the N-byte Hangul code Hangul Filler separately in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, named the Halfwidth Hangul Filler.

I don't think I'm any closer to getting it.

Even more importantly, I don't get why it's any more dangerous than the various unprintable special characters (like zero-width-joiner, for example). Is it just because it's relatively obscure? Is it because it has a more complicated use (introducing, and optionally being a part of a Hangul composition sequence)?

[–] einfach_orangensaft@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It can be hidden in source code, for example to make a lookalike of a variable, there are many implications of that.

[–] megane_kun@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Hm, yeah, that's why I thought of comparing it to the zero-width-joiner. However, what I want to know if there are dangers that are unique to that character.