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If you have so little faith in your system that Unicode characters will lead to an exploit that you block them in window titles, your problem isn't Unicode, the
by bastawhiz 5y ago
If you have so little faith in your system that Unicode characters will lead to an exploit that you block them in window titles, your problem isn't Unicode, the problem is your code that processes and renders it. You still have a problem, you're just making it the user's burden to bear.
- fsflover 5y agoYou should not have faith in software. You should verify and isolate.
- bastawhiz 5y agoI very explicitly didn't say "software". You should be distrustful of software. If you can't trust the system you've created, you've used or created bad software and then failed to build necessary safeguards. The answer is not to restrict the user, it's to make more robust systems.
- fsflover 5y agoWhat do you mean by "system you've created"? I didn't create anything. I use third-party software (e.g. Firefox) on my third-party OS (e.g. Debian). Qubes runs Debian in a VM and isolates it to defend the user from threats.
- kevin_thibedeau 5y agoThey should just force the use of bitmap fonts. Unicode isn't the enemy.