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I guess? If a malicious attacker could gain access to my FS and create homographs, figuring out which is which while browsing the filesystem would be non-trivial.

But I find it an unlikely attack vector to begin with. The main concern with homographs is in URLs and other external resources.



I guess I am thinking of contexts like uploaded files, or shared network drives.




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