From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27? Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 01:01:18 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83y3bc2378.fsf@gnu.org> <83k1mpyida.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1539234020 23670 195.159.176.226 (11 Oct 2018 05:00:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 05:00:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 11 07:00:16 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gAT55-000624-Ug for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 07:00:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60421 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAT7C-0003Oy-FJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 01:02:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50593) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAT6U-0003Ob-EX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 01:01:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAT6T-0001WV-F2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 01:01:42 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49689) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAT66-0001JB-S2; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 01:01:18 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gAT66-0002oe-KY; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 01:01:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83k1mpyida.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 10 Oct 2018 17:41:05 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:230332 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > I'm not an expert on fonts, but I don't think this is reliable enough. > Are you saying that a font might use the same glyph for similarly > looking characters from different scripts? If that is true, then yes, > we could detect that. But the fact that we have such a font doesn't > yet mean there is a problem worth warning the user, since these > characters need to be _used_ in a certain context to cause confusion. Which characters are confusable is one question, and which contexts they can cause confusion in is another question. We need to distinguish those, to factor the problem. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)