From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Unicode confusables and reordering characters considered harmful Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2021 16:37:53 +0200 Message-ID: <83v919gv9a.fsf@gnu.org> References: <875ytag0hb.fsf@yahoo.com> <87zgqmd5np.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <83wnlqk3rn.fsf@gnu.org> <72dd5c2a-42c7-b12e-05ed-e93adbd89727@gmail.com> <83ilxajyhw.fsf@gnu.org> <83fssejxf8.fsf@gnu.org> <835ytajsv2.fsf@gnu.org> <11d5fecb44af1d388b7f@heytings.org> <11d5fecb449846dc0851@heytings.org> <837ddpicbb.fsf@gnu.org> <11d5fecb442f6eb9e9e3@heytings.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6465"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, stefan@marxist.se, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Gregory Heytings Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 03 15:39:28 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1miHQF-0001Tj-NG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 03 Nov 2021 15:39:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46232 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1miHQE-0007a1-Lh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 03 Nov 2021 10:39:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59896) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1miHOo-000636-7l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Nov 2021 10:37:58 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54392) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1miHOm-0005ko-Rl; Wed, 03 Nov 2021 10:37:56 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=WA0SNOXiLaR/IGUfOmSXf13aC7JhmV5atB6XTGx/MxU=; b=N1I05lWEhagH g/NEl9je+1nfmhbsf4K5PAGm+U+teIy+Vt+2xVmNNt5oo9qtvkMLNXZ6L9Kt+1LXM8CgGii5VLhaj Ycj7FSyIMc0HCjS8eRzdrHBGFpOKO/Fguw78cqSnoGrhoTd2wePL3pbcy+yQjU2lq7wszL/MHq+Ht nuXCA7sbNaRg7bpSiE+iGnJ5FO9VqYhv625RtJ+TM3uto5F2XLQ7l/CIcUM8+veCtfz+aOOuVdbcN peoIHAJSUGwhXlXbwtfonHqv3AQjNUwOSuoJNiz8DdGMFUtMSG3aFSmaOUgrBd+DOJ7XK6ySk8lbv xQE+JCUyEwt6dNhpcDAMdQ==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=4758 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1miHOm-0005KG-DJ; Wed, 03 Nov 2021 10:37:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <11d5fecb442f6eb9e9e3@heytings.org> (message from Gregory Heytings on Wed, 03 Nov 2021 14:29:21 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:278583 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2021 14:29:21 +0000 > From: Gregory Heytings > cc: Stefan Kangas , emacs-devel@gnu.org, > cpitclaudel@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca > > >> Will your proposal make it harder to type in such languages? > > > > Yes, in some cases. > > I don't see why they would become harder to type in in any way. Because it makes the text harder to read. > The > directionality characters would be highlighted, that's all (and it would > be easy to add a toggle command to (un)highlight them on demand, see > attached). This functionality is orthogonal to the one you propose AFAIU, > both could coexist. It could, but I don't think we should install such features.