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		petercooper on Nov 19, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unicode Text Converter If you like this sort of thing, you might like this piece I wrote some time back about writing a Ruby script using whitespace for all identifiers: http://www.rubyinside.com/the-split-is-not-enough-whitespace...

TheLoneWolfling on Nov 19, 2014 [–]

This sounds like it could be abused.

Someone submitting a path to an open-source program (in Ruby) with a NBSP somewhere that changes the program logic or something. (a<NBSP>or<NBSP>b, where earlier you did a<NBSP>or<NBSP>b=x, or something similar, is the first example that comes to mind.

TheLoneWolfling on Nov 20, 2014 | [–]

Whoops. Patch, not path.

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