RE: Questions regarding U+FD3E ORNATE LEFT PARENTHESIS and U+FD3F ORNATE RIGHT PARENTHESIS

From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Fri Dec 07 2007 - 09:02:38 CST

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    > From: Kent Karlsson [mailto:kent.karlsson14@comhem.se]

    > > > b.) Why U+FD3E and U+FD3F have the Bidi_mirroring property not set?
    > >
    > > IIRC, this is by design for back-compat reasons. I believe it
    > > has been discussed on this list before.
    >
    > I did (long ago) suggest to the UTC, in a beta comment for 5.0 IIRC,
    > that they be mirrored. However, the UTC decided to mirror quote marks
    > instead. The latter I did NOT suggest, and that change was a really bad
    > move, and has since been backed on. However, I still think the ornate
    > parentheses should be mirrored, especially if they are used both in
    > LTR and RTL texts rather than only in RTL texts.

    Since you thought changing the mirroring behaviour of quotation marks was a really bad move (and you were right about that), I'm surprised you'd think that changing the mirroring property of these characters would be a good move.

    Peter



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