Re: Unicode confusables and reordering characters considered harmful

[Stefan Monnier]

> Could we add some additional visual indication or warning for such
> characters, in the light of this discussion?  I think there is a clear
> risk that users will not step the cursor through some code they copied
> from a website, or a patch with tens or hundreds of lines.  This means
> that they might miss the indication that we have.

That's only one very specific attack vector.  There are many more.
I don't think it makes much sense to try and fix this one without trying
to fix the others.


        Stefan