Re: Unicode confusables and reordering characters considered harmful, a simple solution

[Stefan Monnier]

>>      myfun("שָׁלוֹם" ,"السّلامعليكم");
[...]
> There is a danger when, because the source code contains invisible control
> characters, the programmer sees something on their screen, and the compiler
> sees something completely different.

You mean there is a special kind of danger coming from the invisible
control characters because they can make code render unexpectedly even
though all the rendered chars are "familiar" (e.g. all-ASCII)?

That's a good point.  Maybe a middle ground could be to call the
attention to such overrides when they're used inside a text line where
all the chars are of the exact same directionality, but not if the line
already contains both strong-LTR and strong-RTL characters.


        Stefan