Re: Can watermarking Unicode text using invisible differences sneak through Emacs, or can Emacs detect it?

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Ligatures are currently not there, and I think it would make sense to
  > have that as a separate command, as I suggested in another email
  > (which you still didn't respond to).  I'm waiting for your response
  > before I decide whether to install such a feature.  The question I
  > asked was:

  >   Would it be good enough to have a command that will arrange for these
  >   ligatures to be displayed as their ASCII equivalents, using the
  >   facilities in latin1-disp.el?

I'm not sure, because I don't know what that would be like in
practice.  If I could see it actually handle some characters, I would
probably see how to answer.

  > ẵ is not supported by latin1-display, as it is not an ISO 8859
  > character.  You need to turn on a more thorough feature.  Try this:

  >   M-x latin1-display-ucs-per-lynx RET

I just gave that command, but it doesn't do anything for the ẵ
character.

  >   I could show you how to install such a
  > composition rule, but I don't think it will do anything on your
  > console, since it doesn't support ligatures.

I don't WANT autocomposition on my Linux terminal.
I'm talking about how to display a ligature character
that actually appears in the buffer.  If latin1-display is the way,
it ought to handle ligature characters too.

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