Re: Unicode confusables and reordering characters considered harmful, a simple solution

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2021 20:45:14 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
> cc: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>, db48x@db48x.net, 
> cpitclaudel@gmail.com, 
>     stefan@marxist.se, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > Then what we have in glyphless-char-display-control is better, and 
> > doesn't need any changes, just customization of format-control to 
> > display as acronyms.
> 
> I must really be missing something, but using buffer-display-table (or 
> standard-display-table) does not need any changes whatsoever either.

It needs the additional code you presented (or minor mode mentioned by
Stefan).

> But now I get what you mean, I thought you were talking about the 
> glyphless-char-display table, but you were talking about the 
> glyphless-char-display-control variable, which would be set by:
> 
> (custom-set-variables '(glyphless-char-display-control '((format-control . 
> hex-code) (no-font . hex-code))))
> 
> or:
> 
> (custom-set-variables '(glyphless-char-display-control '((format-control . 
> acronym) (no-font . hex-code))))

Yes, that's what I meant.  Sorry for not being more clear.