[ILUG] [OT] a spammer who ``knows'' Unicode?

[Brian Foster]

  | From: jm at jmason.org (Justin Mason)
  | Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:28:09 -0800
  | 
  |[ ... ] See jgc's "Spammer's Compendium" doc [ ... ]

 thanks for the pointer!  URL is http://www.jgc.org/tsc/
 as an aside, this BiDi trick happens to be a new entry,
 dated about a month ago, 14-Feb-2005.

 dragging this back to Linux, to-date my (non-exhaustive
 non-systematic) trials have found only(!?) Opera displays
 the BiDi'ed spam correctly (both HTML and pure UTF-8 text
 versions); Firefox hasn't a clew; Konqueor almost gets it
 right but inserts “unknown char” glyphs; mlterm(1) is
 similar to Konqueor but inserts spaces (this one surprised
 me since `mlterm' claims it supports BiDi); and Konsole
 hasn't a clew.  all on SUSE 9.1 in a UTF-8 locale.

cheers!
	-‮flb‬-
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