[Fedora-packaging] Re: UTF-8 package names

Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
Wed Feb 27 16:05:09 UTC 2008


On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:47:39PM -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:52 PM, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >
> >  On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 23:09 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> >  > >
> >  > > /me renames yum to ᶨᶬⱴ
> >  > Is this Farsi, Arab or Hebrew?
> >
> >  It is 3 random chars pulled off of the gnome-character-map :)
> >
> 
> The area that I am going to look forward to is when a package has what
> looks like an ascii character but turns out to be a different UTF
> version of that letter. The example I remember from class was where
> the word nonny-nonny had 6 different 'types' of n. Looking at it where
> they all showed up as \uBLAH was easy but in a completely UTF
> compliant screen you couldnt just type it. Not that Fedora has to deal
> with support tickets..

5+ years ago there was an example where this could be even used in a
malicious way to spoof URLs like microsoft.com with non-ASCII characters.

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=503156
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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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