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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2021 23:31:38 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
> cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, cpitclaudel@gmail.com, stefan@marxist.se, 
>     emacs-devel@gnu.org, db48x@db48x.net, yuri.v.khan@gmail.com
> 
> That's possible indeed, but this is not what the "Trojan Source" paper is 
> about.  The example you show is only one instance of the many possible 
> reasons why a piece of code can be difficult to interpret, there are many 
> others, e.g. misleading indentation in code.  The point made by the 
> "Trojan Source" paper is only about invisible reordering control 
> characters.

We should have features to flag any potentially confusing text, not
just what that paper was talking about.