[authors: default bidi-display-reordering is set to t] (was: Unicode confusables and reordering characters considered harmful)

[Uwe Brauer]

>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
>> Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2021 14:54:34 +0100
>> 
>> I was about to ask about this article especially since emacs was also
>> investigated.

> "Investigated" is a very string word for what I found there about
> Emacs.  They didn't even bother to mention which editors display the
> formatting controls and which make them invisible (and thus much
> harder to find, even if one is vigilant).

One of the authors just answered my question about setting the variable 
bidi-display-reordering and I quote 

,----
| I kept all of the default configurations in each of our tests, so whichever
| the default config is would be what we used.
`----

I just tested: emacs -Q 

Then that variable is set to t.

Maybe that is not a good idea?

I am wondering how the test would be with the variable set to nil.

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