Re: Unicode confusables and reordering characters considered harmful

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2021 21:18:08 +0800
> 
> 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?

It is.  But this is a free world: people are free to do whatever they
want (to their cost), and we cannot stop them from doing that.