From 06ee153faa01ed1393359c700d6fa340caa65789 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@humbughq.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:45:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Use zero-width characters for message loop checking.

(imported from commit 61f6dca96cd1d8431258afc0181e71d5b709e300)
---
 zephyr/zephyr_mirror.py | 11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/zephyr/zephyr_mirror.py b/zephyr/zephyr_mirror.py
index fcfd627ddd..6b5c477b22 100644
--- a/zephyr/zephyr_mirror.py
+++ b/zephyr/zephyr_mirror.py
@@ -115,10 +115,11 @@ def process_loop(log):
             zsig, body = notice.message.split("\x00", 1)
             is_personal = False
             is_huddle = False
-
-            if zsig.endswith("`") and zsig.startswith("`"):
-                print "Skipping message from Humbug!"
-                continue
+            if isinstance(zsig, str):
+                # Check for width unicode character u'\u200B'.encode("utf-8")
+                if u'\u200B'.encode("utf-8") in zsig:
+                    print "Skipping message from Humbug!"
+                    continue
 
             sender = notice.sender.lower().replace("athena.mit.edu", "mit.edu")
             recipient = notice.recipient.lower().replace("athena.mit.edu", "mit.edu")
@@ -217,7 +218,7 @@ def get_new_zephyrs():
         return simplejson.loads(res.read())['zephyrs']
 
 def send_zephyr(message):
-    zsig = "`%s`" % (username_to_fullname(message["sender_email"]))
+    zsig = u"%s\u200B" % (username_to_fullname(message["sender_email"]))
     if ' dot ' in zsig:
         print "ERROR!  Couldn't compute zsig for %s!" % (message["sender_email"])
         return