A way to block RTLO in filenames
Posted: 09 Nov 2015 19:39
I may have overlooked this but is there a way to disable (the effect of) the Unicode RTLO (right-to-left override) character in filenames displayed by XY?
This is an old security issue in Windows and now I tested again and XY displays a file like test[RTLO_char]txt.bat as testtab.txt which can lead to unpredictable results if such files downloaded from the internet and even experienced users could be tricked into double clicking it.
Color-coding executable (bat, exe, scr etc.) files is not always enough of a (kind of) protection.
Moreover for locales where the default is Left to Right, this should be by default, especially in filenames.
This is an old security issue in Windows and now I tested again and XY displays a file like test[RTLO_char]txt.bat as testtab.txt which can lead to unpredictable results if such files downloaded from the internet and even experienced users could be tricked into double clicking it.
Color-coding executable (bat, exe, scr etc.) files is not always enough of a (kind of) protection.
Moreover for locales where the default is Left to Right, this should be by default, especially in filenames.