Re: Unicode confusables and reordering characters considered harmful

[Po Lu]

Vasilij Schneidermann <mail@vasilij.de> writes:

> The first issue is about bidirectional reordering characters. If bidi
> text rendering is not needed, it's easy enough to work around with
> `(setq-default bidi-display-reordering nil)`. Some people already make
> use of this to speed up redisplay. Maybe there's a better solution, such
> as automatically detecting whether the user is working with a RTL script
> and only then enable bidi text rendering.

Isn't bidi-display-ordering obsolete and present only as a debugging
option?  Or am I misunderstanding something?