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Re: Unicode confusables considered harmful
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Unicode confusables considered harmful |
Date: |
Sat, 06 Nov 2021 15:29:01 +0200 |
> Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2021 14:10:15 +0100
> From: Vasilij Schneidermann <mail@vasilij.de>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > That's supposed to be the subject of uni-confusables in ELPA, I think.
>
> That may be, but the package does nothing besides setting up a new
> character table (see the initial message).
Hmm... I thought it did more. So I guess it has to be extended to
provide some facilities based on that table, and perhaps also based on
other character information.
> > If uni-confusables doesn't do its job well enough, please submit bug
> > reports.
>
> It wouldn't hurt to have some discussion first what exactly the package
> is supposed to do.
Fine, let's have it. Perhaps you or someone else would like to
propose a set of APIs for dealing with these issues? That'd be a good
start, I think.
> Considering there isn't agreement on how the bidi situation is
> handled, I doubt there will be an obvious solution for confusables
> either.
Let's see what we want it to do, before talking about solutions. I
wouldn't expect it to be hard to reach a consensus on confusables.
Implementation is another matter...
Re: Unicode confusables and reordering characters considered harmful, Stefan Kangas, 2021/11/02
Re: Unicode confusables considered harmful, Vasilij Schneidermann, 2021/11/05
Re: Unicode confusables considered harmful, Stefan Monnier, 2021/11/05
Re: Unicode confusables and reordering characters considered harmful, Dmitry Gutov, 2021/11/10