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

[Gregory Heytings]

> > From a theoretical point of view, that's correct.  From a practical 
> > point of view, if these controls characters are only found in 0.01% of 
> > the files that are hosted on, say, GitLab, and given that these 
> > controls can have a dangerous effect, it is reasonable for an editor to 
> > make them stand out.
>
> Since when is it OK to flag characters that are used very rarely? What 
> would be the sense of doing that?  Should we perhaps flag all the 
> Egyptian hieroglyphs for the same reason?

The answer is above: "given that these controls can have a dangerous 
effect".  There's no reason to put a traffic sign in the middle of a 
forest.

> > Anyway, I think it is time to abandon all hope.
>
> It would be a shame if we abandoned all hope to solve this issue in a 
> good way.

That was a sentence for myself.

> I, for one, don't abandon hope in this matter.

I know ;-)

> bidi-find-overridden-directionality will be extended soon to find the 
> problematic text in the examples from that paper.

Let's then hope it will it be called from prog-mode.