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

Peter Constable <[email protected]> Sat, 8 Dec 2007 08:45:40 -0800

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> From: Kent Karlsson [mailto:[email protected]]

> > I'm surprised you'd think that changing the
> > mirroring property of these characters would be a good move.
>
> 1) These characters were relatively recently encoded in Unicode,
> and there is likely not very many documents using the ornate
> parentheses in a Unicode encoding. Furthermore, they are not
> present in commonly used non-Unicode encodings.

From DerivedAge.txt:

FBD3..FD3F    ; 1.1 # [365] ARABIC LETTER NG ISOLATED FORM..ORNATE RIGHT PARENTHESIS

Do you really consider TUS1.1 to be relatively recent?



Peter