Re: Unicode confusables and reordering characters considered harmful

[Uwe Brauer]

>>> "PL" == Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> Vasilij Schneidermann <mail@vasilij.de> writes:
>> The first issue is about bidirectional reordering characters. If bidi
>> text rendering is not needed, it's easy enough to work around with
>> `(setq-default bidi-display-reordering nil)`. Some people already make
>> use of this to speed up redisplay. Maybe there's a better solution, such
>> as automatically detecting whether the user is working with a RTL script
>> and only then enable bidi text rendering.

> Isn't bidi-display-ordering obsolete and present only as a debugging
> option?  Or am I misunderstanding something?

I was about to ask about this article especially since emacs was also
investigated. The authors don't talk about this variable when concluding
that emacs could be fooled. hm

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