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

From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Sat Dec 08 2007 - 10:45:40 CST

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    > From: Kent Karlsson [mailto:kent.karlsson14@comhem.se]

    > > 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

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