In a recent educational trick, curl contributor James Fuller submitted a pull-request to the project in which he suggested a larger cleanup of a set of scripts. In a later presentation, he could show us how not a single human reviewer in the team nor any CI job had spotted or remarked on one of … Continue reading Detecting malicious Unicode →
This appears to have prompted GitHub to warn on ambiguous Unicode characters in diffs like other source control programs (namely Gitea from the article) already do. Love it.
It’s possible their communication happened before that, and it just took a while to write and post OP post. 16 days is not that long or delayed. I haven’t checked the dates of the commits in question though.
This appears to have prompted GitHub to warn on ambiguous Unicode characters in diffs like other source control programs (namely Gitea from the article) already do. Love it.
https://github.blog/changelog/2025-05-01-github-now-provides-a-warning-about-hidden-unicode-text/ since may 1st (OP is from may 16th)
Ah, I see. GitHub reached out to Daniel saying “hey we’re actually doing that” not because it was a reaction to the post.
It’s possible their communication happened before that, and it just took a while to write and post OP post. 16 days is not that long or delayed. I haven’t checked the dates of the commits in question though.