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It seems to be the o and the e at the end. Homoglyphs were a bad idea. Single letter or word homoglyphs in ohterwise latin text ought to be highlit somehow to warn against tricks like that.

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i just set the default encoding of my browser to latin1 and disabled auto-detection. it doesn't work most of the time because the browser doesn't have to detect anything because of encoding tags in the page code, but it's handy if i have suspicions.

now i see gibberish for everything i don't care about, including utf8 homoglyphs.

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