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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