full-disclosure - Improper Character Handling In PHP BasedScriptslike PhpBB, IPB etc.

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Date: Tue Jan 24 11:35:32 2006
From: brian at dessent.net (Brian Dessent)
Subject: Improper Character Handling In PHP 
	BasedScriptslike PhpBB, IPB etc.

Edward Pearson wrote:

> Anybody know a good prog to discover what ASCII chars are?

Jesus, what has the world come to when people on a security list can't
even seem to work a hex editor?  Do you realize how pathetic that
sounds?

The character in question is U+00AD aka SOFT HYPHEN. 
<http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/shy.html>

Brian