Reply to post: This reminds me of the prank...

Trojan Source attack: Code that says one thing to humans tells your compiler something very different, warn academics

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This reminds me of the prank...

...where one could replace random semicolons in someone's source code with the Greek question-mark character (which is a homoglyph in most fonts) and then watch them pull their hair out trying to work out why their code no longer compiles...

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