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> Let me explain how you can get Unicode revenge without harming a soul.

Except, of course, anyone relying on a screen reader or other accessibility tool.

https://kence.org/2020/10/02/accessibility-of-unicode-as-sty...

If that's a concern, Unicode `Default_Ignorable_Code_Point` property [1] represents a set of characters that are suitable for steganography because they can be more or less safely ignored without affecting semantics. (And most of them even do not affect visuals, like higher variation selectors.)

[1] https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/list-unicodeset.jsp?a=[...:]

That style (using Unicode bold text and such) is so ugly too. Among my peers we’ve just used it as a gag.

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