Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
>> if for instance ( ) are officially not symbols but open/close thingies,
>> then we need to deal with them
>
> Yes, they are. That's what the Bidi_Mirrored property is for.
>
>> (although i then wonder why we have no
>> proper open/close code point for them instead of reusing the ascii ()
>
> If anything, for backward compatibility.
sure but originally they were in ascii just ( and ) and not some generic
opener and closer
Hans
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