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

[Po Lu]

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> In any case, the above leads me back to the simple idea to raise
> byte-compiler (or even `read'?) warnings for the problematic control
> characters unless a specific variable is set to t, or unless the piece
> of code using them is wrapped in some `with-suppressed-warnings' call.

Warning inside read would be extremely counterproductive, as read is
used to read many types of data, not just code.

And presumably, the other (machine-generated?) data read by read could
contain such reordering characters.