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Depending on the system you use to view the text, many of the characters are actually printed using non-Roman lookalike characters that still render as the "usu
by phkn1 11y ago
Depending on the system you use to view the text, many of the characters are actually printed using non-Roman lookalike characters that still render as the "usual" ones.
In OSX / Firefox I see the usual text in the web view, but in source view there's a variation in shading between characters, in what should be an unadorned monospaced font. Viewing the same source in Chrome shows the trick for what it is...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/oj9cqlh3kh90zep/Screenshot%202016-03-22%2016.15.36.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/oj9cqlh3kh90zep/Screenshot%202016-...
Subtle and not always visible due to differences in display normalization in various libraries? Way out of my depth for system fonts / encoding issues. But hopefully the above shows what I'm talking about. Could there be some data hidden in the lookalike string values?
http://www.lookout.net/2012/04/generating-confusable-lookalike-strings.html http://www.lookout.net/2012/04/generating-confusable-lookali...