Proposing new arrow characters with Bidi_Mirrored=Yes

[Asmus Freytag]

On 4/8/2025 11:07 AM, Markus Scherer wrote:
> Encoding characters that look the same but behave differently is a bad 
> idea.
^^^ That.
> We have tried this, for example with letter-behavior clones of some of 
> the typographic quotes (U+02BB, U+02BC). People use them 
> inconsistently, because they can't tell the difference while typing or 
> reading, and so we get problems with having to treat both equally in 
> some places, text search, spoofing, "why does it say I am using an 
> invalid character?", etc.
>
> Unicode also has some magic invisible control characters that were 
> supposed to change the behavior of affected characters in ways that 
> violated their identity. These control codes are Deprecated with 
> prejudice.
>
> markus