Re: highlighting non-ASCII characters

[Lennart Borgman]

2010/3/24 Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>:
> On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:00:47 +0900 "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
>
> SJT> There were long threads on Python-dev about this with respect to the
> SJT> PEPs implementing Unicode.  The bottom line was basically that the
> SJT> recommendations of the Unicode Security Considerations UTR #36 should
> SJT> be followed with respect to "characters that may not be what they look
> SJT> like".
>
> This is relevant, thanks for the pointer.  See
>
> http://unicode.org/reports/tr36/
>
> which links to:
>
> http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr39/#Confusable_Detection
>
> which can also be used to build a table of homoglyphs (as in 
> http://homoglyphs.net).


Maybe "Recommended Identifier Profiles for IDN" should be implemented
in Emacs? (See http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr39/data/idnchars.txt)

How about a bool vector (see make-bool-vector) for this?