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Are there any ways to block unicode private use areas from coding at the kernel level? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by j4k3@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.world

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Use_Areas

I came across a Python library that passed the ASCII range into one of these non printable character ranges and then into a database. If someone was doing that manually with a hex table, how is that detected and mitigated?

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[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

No one reads hex as strings IRL.

[–] trigg@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

But it means nothing. You can cypher in much more efficient or clever ways.