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What I'd want for most cases is to "paste as printable ASCII." That covers a large number of use cases (the article's example is printable ASCII ostensibly to reach the largest audience).

I'm not sure what to do with more complicated language mixing, but I suppose a script to tell you what languages are being used and where there might be "out-of-place" character codes would help.



Solving this seems pretty similar to how browsers handle phishing related issues with International Domain Names.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack




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