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This doesn't feel particularly new either? Isn't it pretty much a new variant of https://github.com/reinderien/mimic ?

Which, if one is suspicious of code, can be defeated in vim with: set encoding=latin1

Which breaks other things, such as every other string that's not written in English. But it's a great tip for a quick check, thanks! (Much more convenient than piping text through xxd)

Yeah, it's definitely just for quick checks if the text is in fact using unicode. But, hopefully just for stuff you're suspicious of where you could mandate no-unicode.

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