Re: RE: Proposing new arrow characters with Bidi_Mirrored=Yes

Nitai Sasson via Unicode <[email protected]> Thu, 10 Apr 2025 19:40:49 +0000
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On 10/04/2025 22:28, Doug Ewell <[email protected]> wrote:

>  But specifically a left-to-right arrow, such as U+2192 as currently defined, correct? If they had intended a right-to-left arrow (such as U+2190) because the surrounding text is RTL, they would have typed “<--”, correct?

Close, but the actual intention is specifically an arrow pointing in the same direction as the ASCII approximation of an arrow points. When the character sequence "-->" appears within RTL text, this means a right-to-left arrow: א --> ב. This is the crux of the issue.

Thank you for clarifying what that document is. Could the people involved with that discussion be contacted to weigh in on this issue?