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If wonder if they will just fill it with non-printable unicode characters. It would be the easiest to implement, and fairly effective for most casual users.
Sure it's trivial to make a tool to strip the text of those characters. But someone would have to be dedicated to cheating to bother.
Why do people keep suggesting this? It's a moronic idea and they've already said they'll hide it within the word choices.