[Link] Trojan Source attack: Code that says one thing to humans tells your compiler something very different, warn academics

Read: 3/11/2021 www.theregister.com

Updated The way Unicode's UTF-8 text encoding handles different languages could be misused to write malicious code that says one thing to humans and another to compilers, academics are warning.

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