Double right arrowhead?

Nitai Sasson unicode.org at sl.neatnit.net
Sun Jul 20 11:43:22 CDT 2025


Allow me to just point out the option of continuing to use ">>" for this purpose.
There's nothing inherently wrong with it, although it might need extra care to prevent line-breaking between the two, in some software. (This isn't an issue in the couple of programs I just tested)


On Saturday, 19 July 2025 at 13:56, Ivan Panchenko via Unicode <unicode at corp.unicode.org> wrote:

> People sometimes use two greater-than signs or a right-hand guillemet
> to point to the right, e.g., in “Continue reading >>” or preceding a
> text as part of a link. I wonder which Unicode character(s) would be
> appropriate for this. There is U+02C3 (“˃”, modifier letter right
> arrowhead), but it is a modifier letter (see also U+08FC (arabic
> double right arrowhead above with dot) for comparison). Simply U+27A4
> (“➤”, black rightwards arrowhead), whose contour consists of two
> > -like shapes? Or should a new character be proposed?




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