Re: Trojan Source detection/highlight in Emacs?

[Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

> if access_level != "user{U+202E} {U+2066}// Check if admin{U+2069}
> {U+2066}" {
>
> ...would be rendered by bidirectional-aware tools as:
>
> if access_level != "user" { // Check if admin
>
> This would give the reader the mistaken impression that the program is
> comparing admin_level with the value "user".

Clearly, Eli will know better, but I suspect that we may be able to
avoid most of those issues by (conceptually) treating comment delimiters
as bidi barriers.  Of course, that leaves open the question of what
I mean by "bidi barrier" and of how to implement it ;-)


        Stefan