On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 01:37, Ilmari Karonen <nospam(a)vyznev.net> wrote:
Trying to edit through such a proxy would, in
particular, turn all
apostrophes in the page text into "\'" or even "\\\'". We
used to get
such edits with some regularity. Having a backslash in the edit token
prevents editing via such proxies, since they will mangle it in the same
way. As a nice bonus, it also happens to prevent some widespread spam-
and vandalbots from using those proxies to hide their trails.
Could there be also some Unicode, such as a long dash (—; replaced to
"-" by some proxies) and some characters from IPA (say, ɾ̃ɚ)? I
sometimes see users that corrupt such characters, and finding and
reverting them is a pain.
— Kalan