It's a confusable. There's a lot of them in Unicode. Auditing source code is hard, and if it's a concern, I suggest filtering out all non-ASCII characters.
If you really think it's a concern, let's be specific; what do you mean this kind of behavior in bank transactions? If you're worried about the bank's JavaScript, you already have to trust code written for OS/360 that the bank considers proprietary and to be keep deeply hidden, as if you could read GOTO-laden PL/I anyway. On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 8:49 AM "Jörg Knappen" <[email protected]> wrote: > I stumbled over a very strange snippet of javascript code, where an > apparent > minus sign is interpreted as a space here: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31507143/why-does-2-40-equal-42 > > Imagine such kind of behaviour in bank transactions ... > > --Jörg Knappen >
