[Bug 549882] Control characters alter filename appearance

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Stanislav Brabec changed:

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------- Comment #5 from Stanislav Brabec  2008-10-30 16:36 UTC -------
Providing a bad visual feedback is not only a problem of RLO. In worst case it
could make an assumption, that you are going to overwrite existing file.
Nothing worse could happen. (False IDN is a different issue.)

This is a very common case:

For example these two files should render equally due to RLO:

touch $'S\327\220\327\221va.exe' $'S\342\200\255\327\221\327\220va.exe'

And these due to flying/embedded accent:

touch $'Voil\303\241' $'Voila\314\201'

These three should render equally or nearly equally as well due to space
attributes:
touch 'A FILE' $'A\302\240FILE' $'A\342\200\257FILE'

These due to use of Zero Width characters:
touch file $'f\342\200\213i\342\200\213l\342\200\213e'

And finally these due to combining with similar characters from other
alphabets:
touch passwd $'\321\200\320\260\321\225\321\225wd'

And here use of the combining characted is mandatory (and it seems, that in
GNOME 2.24 it does not render correctly):

touch $'\340\244\232\340\245\207\340\244\244\340\244\250\340\244\276'


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