Unless you do script analysis, which is hard, you allow homoglyph attacks.
This does prevent a class of malice where RTL modifiers are injected into
symbol names, though.

On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 1:38 PM Peter C++ via Liaison <
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> if one reviews with a decent IDE it will show which is which.
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> > On 18 Jun 2021, at 18:08, Uecker, Martin via Liaison <
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> > 
> > Similar looking symbols certainly makes it much worse
> > where code from untrusted sources needs to be reviewed.
> >
> > Am Freitag, den 18.06.2021, 08:53 -0700 schrieb JF Bastien via Liaison:
> >> No.
> >>
> >> If malicious source code through Unicode homoglyphs are a security
> >> issue, then you already have a security issue with trusting your
> >> developers. As underhanded C contests show, you don't need Unicode to
> >> hide malicious code.
> >>
> >>> On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 8:51 AM Robert Seacord via Liaison <
> >>> liaison_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >>> Are there any security concerns if we don't make this change? (I
> >>> work in security, so people ask me questions like this when I ask
> >>> about working on a proposal.)
> >>>
> >>> rCs
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 3:06 PM Steve Downey via Liaison <
> >>> liaison_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >>>> C++ Identifier Syntax using Unicode Standard Annex 31
> >>>> https://github.com/steve-downey/papers/blob/master/d1949.md
> >>>> Slides:
> >>>>
> https://github.com/steve-downey/papers/blob/master/UAX31-EWG-slides.org
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