From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: highlighting non-ASCII characters Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:17:57 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87pr2rj89j.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87ljdeke5k.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87eij3ht2c.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87aatqj0ti.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87vdcegdco.fsf@lifelogs.com> <130527C5CEED43598D8CDF4324E475B7@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269959032 1177 80.91.229.12 (30 Mar 2010 14:23:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:23:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ted Zlatanov , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 30 16:23:42 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NwcLu-00088p-0M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:23:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36151 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NwcLm-0007Il-Po for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:23:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NwcGx-0005lx-By for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:18:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41079 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NwcGt-0005kF-6R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:18:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NwcGo-0008DU-Fg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:18:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f224.google.com ([209.85.220.224]:37506) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NwcGo-0008DM-8N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:18:18 -0400 Original-Received: by fxm24 with SMTP id 24so8910fxm.26 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:18:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:received:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=a4nhXRnyFZo2lhY5jbcOxdLYAfY1ii1OE3sotS1FZ40=; b=L+IWPoFE8yuIhEWJzXjX/ywl6x+xDwTJ94Fs4BqC/DrwRy/hHL7e49Cvdh/raiV3/4 Yy8hJGyHVyzl2wkBzh5NcJB6YsAxpZyMwlgi/VJC3bhsmzTr0e8ahviEYoq9NvdATjI0 oen2J+0EvFjzQ3PUC2e+3bRs53m6ythCAXjtA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=b2BbzFvW4AS8VRYRRgLs5GcQ7B4fuG58pP1WVrtYT4ai2pHKA2tfu5Gaa+QjNdSW40 nP32dBqc/nDrk9e7PElN+6neQGeXXM/LgJ+mltyN9FMwI/Ee2PPFAZhpcflH14UjRJlg Eder6aPhOQQ35reGgx7z4TV+4CP2CQbjKIi4E= Original-Received: by 10.239.169.18 with HTTP; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:17:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <130527C5CEED43598D8CDF4324E475B7@us.oracle.com> Original-Received: by 10.239.182.193 with SMTP id r1mr633137hbg.210.1269958697281; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:18:17 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:122911 Archived-At: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Drew Adams wrote: > > And there's the opposite potential problem: not distinguishing similar chars > visually in the case where they do have different behaviors in some app. Suppose > you prepare code (for example) in Emacs for use in some other context, and you > want to be made aware when you use the wrong char, to avoid a problem > downstream. Even though I understand IDN chars are limited to URL-like things I expect them to form the basis of attempts to solve also problems like this.