[ShadowAce]

[pierrem15]

Not clear to me what this can do. The string literal is read and has BiDi control characters. Will it just change the direction of how the characters are displayed in the browser or other software? Does the BiDi code keep reading until it finds another control character, thus causing a buffer read overrun enabling a buffer exploit?

[Dr. Sivana]

Back to writing octal code for the PDP-8.

[Flavious_Maximus]

Or a developer could simply strip out all the comments from source code and leave only valid syntax to compile.

[Bobalu]

This is in̯̦͚͍͇̩͑̓͆͒̍ͪteresting

[OrangeHoof]

Do we need to wear a mask or get a shot?

[sauropod]

bkmk

[GingisK]

Ah, not true.

[zeugma]

I’ve always thought unicode was a =really= bad idea in anything but documents, and generally not really so good an idea there unless you’re trying to display kanji or something.

You should be able to turn the stuff off. I would imagine in the future that code editors will have bright flashy things for these ‘bidi’ codes.