Duplicate Mongolian vowel separator can be used to avert swear filter...

[Liam W]

The unicode character with code 180E can be used to 'avert' the swear filter.

Technically, as the word is different, I'm not sure if this can be classed as a bug. Now, don't ban me for this - but I do have to demonstrate somehow

****ty
shi᠎tty

The second one has this particular character after the 'i'...

Liam

 

[Martok]

Isn't this just the same as using another character in its place? You can replace that character with a full stop, a comma, an underscore and they will all bypass the swear filter and of course the swear word will be quite clear to everyone. Of course, you can also use a '1' in place of the 'i'.

You'll never catch every variant of a swear word. The best I think you can do is filter out the main ones and if there's an offender who continues to bypass this, stick them on moderation.

 

[Jeremy]

http://xenforo.com/community/thread...hen-colour-applied-to-text.55993/#post-596701

 

[Liam W]

Isn't this just the same as using another character in its place? You can replace that character with a full stop, a comma, an underscore and they will all bypass the swear filter and of course the swear word will be quite clear to everyone. Of course, you can also use a '1' in place of the 'i'.

You'll never catch every variant of a swear word. The best I think you can do is filter out the main ones and if there's an offender who continues to bypass this, stick them on moderation.

Not really, the main reason I flagged this up is because it looks like there isn't a swear filter when it's used - when people substitute letters, or add normal ones it's normally pretty obvious, this one isn't...

Liam

 

[Mike]

This example is obvious to me:



(That's a screenshot. )

But what @Jeremy linked to is roughly correct. And there are thousands of "confusables" so it's not really feasible to prevent (at least while maintaining performance. See: http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/confusables.jsp We always say that active moderation is what's needed.

 

[Liam W]

This example is obvious to me:

View attachment 56219

(That's a screenshot. )

But what @Jeremy linked to is roughly correct. And there are thousands of "confusables" so it's not really feasible to prevent (at least while maintaining performance. See: http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/confusables.jsp We always say that active moderation is what's needed.

What device were you on :/ I thought unicode worked almost everywhere

Anyhow, I see what you mean. Oh well, if I ever want to annoy an admin...