According to GoSecure's presentation [PDF] "Unicode vulnerabilities that could byte you", the recommendation states that "If you need to do normalization, normalized prior to a security validation".

Handling Unicode and byte strings in Python can sometimes be a tricky affair, but with the right approach, you can manage them efficiently. Unicode is a standard for representing text in different ...

The Unicode Consortium has finalized version 15.1 of the Unicode standard this week. Although Unicode is used to display tens of thousands of characters in languages used worldwide, the headlining ...

However, should the abuse of Unicode for hiding malicious Python code become a trend, it might become cause for concern. "But, whomever this author copied this obfuscated code from is clever ...

A malicious Python package on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository has been found to use Unicode as a trick to evade detection and deploy an info-stealing malware. The package in question, named ...

Python's Unicode support can be easily abused to hide malicious string matches, making code appear innocuous while still performing malicious behavior. In this case, the stealing of sensitive data ...

This guide introduces the concept of Unicode to developers, explains how Python handles unicode, and demonstrates how to handle common errors Most of the time, using Unicode characters in Python does ...

In this research, Roman Urdu to Urdu Translator (RUTUT) is proposed that consists of preprocessing methods, rule-based character substitution and Unicode based character ... This research is carried ...