Characters for non-English text but looks like ASCII letters.

nhoizey / vscode-gremlins

Gremlins tracker for Visual Studio Code: reveals invisible whitespace and other annoying characters

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Characters for non-English text but looks like ASCII letters. #21

Open be5invis opened 6 years ago

be5invis commented 6 years ago

Like Cyrillic letters, Greek question mark, CJK full-width punctuations. Only mark them in code though.

nhoizey commented 5 years ago

@be5invis hello, sorry for the very late answer, trying to catch up on all opened issues.

These would be useful indeed, but I would like to make Gremlins easily configurable before, so that people have the opportunity to decide which characters to look for.

Anyway, would you have a page somewhere listing all these characters?

be5invis commented 5 years ago

Here are some examples I know:

Greek question mark U+037E (;);
Curly quotes (U+2018 — U+201F);
Characters in “Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms” block (U+FF00 — U+FFEF);

For these characters:

If they occur in code, report error.
If they occur in strings or comments, notify the user.

nhoizey commented 5 years ago

A few additional characters: https://twitter.com/aemkei/status/1146884713371578369

Regarding context aware choice between error and warning, I'm not sure how to proceed.