Proposing new arrow characters with Bidi_Mirrored=Yes
Mark E. Shoulson
mark at kli.org
Thu Apr 10 19:14:26 CDT 2025
On 4/10/25 7:58 PM, Mark E. Shoulson via Unicode wrote:
>
> These really are two separate issues, and maybe it were best not to
> conflate or confuse them.
>
> The "proposed solution", as I see it, is there is some character that
> attaches to the previous character (or probably the previous base
> character or grapheme cluster, if it comes to that), and flags it as
> subject to BiDi mirroring. I imagine this wouldn't necessarily be
> available for EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER in Unicode; we don't need to make
> sure it's possible to write a mirror-reversed ネ or @ or whatever (I
> mean, unless we do need those), but presumably some selected list of
> characters, mainly arrows and things like directional math operators
> and possibly some directional emoji.
>
Actually, does glyph-mirroring make sense for things that don't already
have a mirrored glyph at another codepoint? Sorry, might have missed that.
~mark
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