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

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While I’m biased being an English speaker, for programming purposes I’ve never understood the need for Unicode in your source. A simpler and more predictable char set used to be common for programming tasks, and would not be subject to this vector. Do I want unicode functionality in your program output downstream? Yes. But source doesn’t need it.

Boats already sailed though so not much point complaining.

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