Directionality controls for malicious code

[Martin J. Dürst]

Hello Doug, others,

On 2021-12-02 16:24, Doug Ewell via Unicode wrote:
> Martin J. Dürst wrote:
> 
>> There are many other tools involved, in particular editors. There are
>> probably way less serious editors than programming languages. Editors
>> can clearly show problematic characters, so that users can decide
>> whether they are dangerous or necessary (or both).
> 
> Given the publicity surrounding the "Trojan Source" paper, I'd be surprised if someone weren't already working on a Visual Studio Code extension that flags bidi controls in the editor window. It might already be available, for all I know.

Here you go:
https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_62#_unicode-directional-formatting-characters

Regards,   Martin.


> Going into a panic and writing this into programming language specifications is what doesn't need to happen.
> 
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