On Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 11:11:00AM +0100, Marc-Andre Lemburg wrote: > Coming back to the thread topic, many of the Unicode security > considerations don't apply to non-Unicode encodings, since those > usually don't support e.g. changing the bidi direction within a > stream of text or other interesting features you have in Unicode > such as combining code points, invisible (space) code points, font > rendering hint code points, etc. > > So in a sense, those non-Unicode encodings are safer than > using UTF-8 :-)
Thank you MAL for that timely reminder that most encodings are not Unicode. I have to admit that I often forget that there is a whole universe of non-Unicode, non-ASCII encodings. > Please also note that most character lookalikes are not encoding > issues, but instead font issues, which then result in the characters > looking similar. +1 -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/NJFO5C7367F4NLLQTJRNNNUCRRLA6BES/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
