To demonstrate the utility of "ASCII smuggling"—the term used to describe the embedding of invisible characters mirroring those contained in the American Standard Code for Information ...

Unicode could be seen as a universal version of ASCII. ASCII is, after all, the American Code for Information Interchange, and its first iteration included the English-language alphabet and ...

I'm sure this has been discussed elsewhere and I don't know when, or if, we'll have time to implement it, but I think it's worth adding here. Currently Python strs (PyUnicodeObject in C) are ...

In Python, strings are sequences of Unicode characters, but when dealing with ASCII, you are converting these characters into a simpler, 7-bit character set. This conversion is done using str ...

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Cybersecurity researchers from Phylum have found a new form of malware in a PyPI package that was using Unicode to hide. Unicode is a global encoding standard used for different languages and ...

Python's support for using Unicode characters for identifiers, i.e., code variables, functions, classes, modules, and other objects, allows coders to create identifiers that appear identical yet ...

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Virtually all compilers -- programs that transform human-readable source code into computer-executable machine code -- are vulnerable to an insidious attack in which an adversary can introduce ...