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Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding


From: Yuri Khan
Subject: Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 02:24:44 +0600

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 12:14 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

>> * Identical-looking distinct code points (Latin a and Cyrillic a).
>
> This one is a very specialized feature needed only in some marginal
> use cases (like looking for the so-called "confusables" -- characters
> that look the same and could be used for deception, e.g. in URLs).

When looking for confusables, you don’t want to fold. You want to make
letters of different scripts stand out, e.g. by font-locking.



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