Proposing new arrow characters with Bidi_Mirrored=Yes

[Peter Constable]

I consider the use cases describe incomplete because they haven’t made completely clear the contexts in which text is appearing.

Peter

From: Nitai Sasson <unicode.org at sl.neatnit.net>
Sent: April 13, 2025 4:10 AM
To: Peter Constable <pgcon6 at msn.com>
Cc: Mark E. Shoulson <mark at kli.org>; unicode at corp.unicode.org
Subject: Re: RE: Proposing new arrow characters with Bidi_Mirrored=Yes


On 12/04/2025 9:57, Peter Constable via Unicode wrote:
> > We're being presented with actual use-cases
>
> Actually, I’d say we’re being presented with incomplete use cases.

 I'm sorry you think so. Why do you think these use cases are incomplete?

https://meta.discourse.org/t/wrong-arrow-direction-in-rtl-text-contexts/360760 - an actual use case with no viable solution at this time.

https://github.com/deevroman/better-osm-org/commit/ebb92a89aff109b2cf123e0b1c20f72a05b66ff6#diff-c40e4bdcda333a75ea7518bed17ef1054abd4d999e4d18f017d469a3d4210829R6306 - a use case where the lack of a Unicode solution forces the developer to implement more complex conditional logic. Note that if they had chosen a different character like U+22B6 Original Of, then the extra logic would not have been needed. https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/character.jsp?a=22B6 There is no good reason why arrow characters, when used as operators, should require more code than other operators.

- Nitai
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