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On Sun, Feb 05, 2017 at 05:37:42PM -0800, daltong defourne wrote:
> Hi!
> Working with lots of non-english text and sites now. The substitution thing 
> is becoming a bit too much to bear.
> 
> How dangerous would using allow_utf8_titles be?
> Are risks limited to homographs or is there a risk of something fancier 
> happening, like, I dunno, GUI-daemon exploit (hypothetically) ?

It's mostly about (unknown) attack vector on window manager - title
rendering and such. As we know from Apple world, strange things may
happen here.

> Is there any sanitizing happening if allow_utf8_titles is activated ?

Yes, we do verify if the title is correct UTF-8 sequence. Also, ASCII
control characters are still disallowed. But nothing more.

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Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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