Re: Can watermarking Unicode text using invisible differences sneak through Emacs, or can Emacs detect it?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: psainty@orcon.net.nz, luangruo@yahoo.com,
>       kevin.legouguec@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2022 22:57:07 -0500
> 
>   > We disagree about whether this is a significant simplification.
>   > Looking at the giant Lynx-derived database in latin1-disp.el, I fail
>   > to see how making a small part of it auto-generated would be a win.
> 
> I had not seen that list before.
> 
> Earlier you said that the a(? translation was made by hand, so I am
> somewhat confused now.
> 
> Most of those entries are for characters without diacritics, it seems,
> and I'm not talking about those.  My objection is to some translations
> of letters with diacritics.  Their meanings are not guessable.  I want
> to replace them with sequences people will be able to understand at
> first sight.

Then please suggest replacements you consider to be better, and let's
make those replacements.  We are not bound by what Lynx does, we just
used that as a source.

> If the easiest way to do that is by editing that list, ok.

Yes, that's what I was trying to say all the time: let's edit that
list directly.  That way, we get to see all the entries, and can
easily judge whether the method of expressing the diacritics is
consistent and looks reasonably well.

> But maybe those characters don't need to be in the list at all.

This was your proposal about generating some of the entries.  I think
it will be harder to maintain, because the effects of a change in
expressing some diacritic are not immediately evident -- you don't see
all of the affected characters.