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It's telling that the description (https://unicode-explorer.com/c/202E) even acknowledges that 202E is commonly used as an exploit. "The Right-To-Left Override character can be used to force a right-to-left direction withing a text. This is often abused by hackers to disguise file extensions: when using it in the file name my-text.'U+202E'cod.exe, the file name is actually displayed as my-text.exe.doc - so it seems to be a .doc file while in reality it is an .exe file."

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