https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Use_Areas

I came across a Python library that passed the ASCII range into one of these non printable character ranges and then into a database. If someone was doing that manually with a hex table, how is that detected and mitigated?

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[–] 4 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I'm still not seeing why that is a problem. The information remains even if it has no glyphs.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    It does not. It can be rendered as a control character.

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