I receive reports from Russian users that they frequently mix up the latin/cyrillic keyboard state when editing things like URLs and then accidentally enter Cyrillic characters into a URL or filename without noticing.
Suggested solution: Editors including readline should be configureable to use different colours for different configurable UCS code ranges. This way these editors can be set up conveniently to encourage typists to use only suitable subsets of Unicode. The above problem would not show up if for example emacs, readline and the relevant GTK widget could be configured to show Latin in black, Cyrillic in blue and Greek in green, as this way the three different A's are clearly distinguished. I think this is far user friendlier than attempts to muddle the fonts such that the LGC (Latin/Greek/Cyrillic) scripts use completely distinguishable glyphs. All this is orthogonal to language tagging. Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
