Re: Proposing new arrow characters with Bidi_Mirrored=Yes
Nitai Sasson via Unicode <[email protected]>
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I just had a thought. Would it make sense to prescribe the Variation Selectors to do this? For example (the VS numbers I chose are arbitrary, you guys would know how to pick the numbers):
→ + VS7 -- subject to mirroring (act as if character has property Bidi_Mirrored=Yes)
→ + VS8 -- not subject to mirroring, never mirror (act as if character has property Bidi_Mirrored=No)
And these options are "for fun" with no use case that I can think of, but for completeness I'll list them:
→ + VS9 -- always mirror, regardless of text direction
→ + VS10 -- opposite, mirror in LTR and don't mirror in RTL
→ + VS11 -- reverse - mirror if and only if it would not have mirrored without a modifier
| → | > |
VS___|_meaning__| LTR | RTL | LTR | RTL |
| default | → | → | > | < |
VS7 | subject | → | ← | > | < | -- most needed
VS8 | never | → | → | > | > | -- nice to have?
VS9 | always | ← | ← | < | < |
VS10 | opposite | ← | → | < | > |
VS11 | reverse | ← | ← | < | > |
(something something R Я .... forget I said that)
- Nitai (NeatNit)