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Over a million Android users fooled by fake WhatsApp app in official Google Play Store

coconuthead

Re: Unicode is evil

This has very little to do with Unicode. The UTF-8 sequence quoted in the article actually represents code point 0xA0, which is the good old nonbreaking space which has been around since ISO 8859-1 and its mutant offspring Windows-1252.

As for "figure out a way", the obvious would be for Google to check the developer names against actual identity, personal or corporate. I doubt any country would allow a corporation to include a nonbreaking space in its name or mix scripts in an ambiguous manner.

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