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

From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Sat Dec 08 2007 - 11:06:54 CST

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    > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On
    > Behalf Of Kent Karlsson

    > > The assignment of gc=Ps and gc=Pe was not a mistake. All
    > > left/right parenthesis and bracket pairs are given gc=Ps for
    > > the "LEFT" of the pair and gc=Pe for the "RIGHT" of the pair.
    >
    > Perhaps not a mistake, but part of the oversight. Now that mirroring
    > cannot be changed, and the use for ORNATE parentheses is mostly in
    > RTL contexts, it would be more logical to swap these properties (and
    > properties that depend on the Ps/Pe values). In addition to adding a
    > note (in NamesList.txt) that these characters are intended for use
    > in RTL contexts.

    That might be a possible change, even if changing the mirroring is not. It would result in more-appropriate line breaking properties for RTL usage.

    Peter



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