Re: Unicode confusables and reordering characters considered harmful

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2021 14:29:21 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
> cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>, emacs-devel@gnu.org, 
>     cpitclaudel@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
> 
> >> Will your proposal make it harder to type in such languages?
> >
> > Yes, in some cases.
> 
> I don't see why they would become harder to type in in any way.

Because it makes the text harder to read.

> The 
> directionality characters would be highlighted, that's all (and it would 
> be easy to add a toggle command to (un)highlight them on demand, see 
> attached).  This functionality is orthogonal to the one you propose AFAIU, 
> both could coexist.

It could, but I don't think we should install such features.