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Date: Tue Jan 24 12:10:32 2006
From: patrickhof at web.de (Patrick Hof)
Subject: Improper Character Handling In PHP Based
	Scriptslike PhpBB, IPB etc.

Edward Pearson <Ed@...tyitservices.co.uk> schrieb:
> I can't reproduce this on vBulletin, Haven't tried the others.
> Anybody know a good prog to discover what ASCII chars are?

$ python
>>> file = open('poc.txt', 'r')
>>> file.read()
'\xad\xaddesiredusername'
>>>

So it's ANSI Hex 0xAD, which is a so-called "soft hyphen". Those won't
be shown by many programs, as

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/shy.html

explains.

HTH, Patrick

-- 
"Take it off or else I break it off." -Leela, with Fry's arm around her
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