Re: Unicode confusables and reordering characters considered harmful

[Stefan Monnier]

> In most cases, there's no need to make these controls stand out,
> because situations where this presents security risks are extremely
> rare, to put it mildly, and OTOH having them stand out more by default
> will make it harder to read text with completely legitimate uses of
> these controls (example: TUTORIAL.he).

Fully agreed.  That's the problem: how to define the problematic cases
in a precise enough way that it doesn't rule out all lots of
legitimate cases.


        Stefan