From the webpage:
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There are many more characters in the Unicode character set that look, to some extent or another, like others – homoglyphs. Mimic substitutes common ASCII characters for obscure homoglyphs.Fun games to play with mimic:
- Pipe some source code through and see if you can find all of the problems
- Pipe someone else’s source code through without telling them
- Be fired, and then killed
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I can attest to the murderous rage from experience. There was a browser-based SGML parser that would barf on the presence of an extra whitespace (space I think) in the SGML declaration. One file worked, another with the “same” declaration did not.
Only by printing and comparing the files (this was on Windoze machines) was the errant space discovered.
Enjoy!