RE: Questions regarding U+FD3E ORNATE LEFT PARENTHESIS and U+FD3F ORNATE RIGHT PARENTHESIS

 
> And Kent responded, for which I must supply a few corrections:
> 
> > 1) These characters were relatively recently encoded in Unicode,
> 
> False. They date from the original publication of 10646-1:1993
> (and Unicode 1.1 as well, of course).

I stand corrected. (I should have checked DerivedAge.txt.)

In another message Ken wrote (in a chapter of "Every character has
a histroy" ;-):

> The assignment of gc=Ps and gc=Pe was not a mistake. All
> left/right parenthesis and bracket pairs are given gc=Ps for
> the "LEFT" of the pair and gc=Pe for the "RIGHT" of the pair.

Perhaps not a mistake, but part of the oversight. Now that mirroring
cannot be changed, and the use for ORNATE parentheses is mostly in
RTL contexts, it would be more logical to swap these properties (and
properties that depend on the Ps/Pe values). In addition to adding a
note (in NamesList.txt) that these characters are intended for use
in RTL contexts. Anomalies resulting from using these in LTR contexts
would then have to be dealt with by other means (by someone editing
the text), if needed; rather than having to deal with those anomalies
in the expectedly more common case of RTL usage (which I venture to
guess isn't actually done).

	Ever trying to fix things...
	/kent k