On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Thomas Chan wrote:
> Markus Kuhn wrote:
> >
> > [There is also the minor issue of U+300a, U+300b, U+301a, U+301b, four
> > mathematical brackets that somehow ended up in the CJK section probably
> > because the Unicode/UCS authors were initially not aware of the
> > mathematical origin of these doublestroke parenthesis and brackets. Do
> > these have any non-mathematical use whatsoever in CJK typography?
> > Otherwise, they clearly must be normal width.]
>
> U+300A LEFT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET and U+300B RIGHT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET
> are used to mark titles of books, periodicals, articles, etc.
Some Korean books/newspaper articles do the same. However, I don't
think this necessarily mean that they should have double-width.
BTW, for mathematics, can we just use U+226A and U+226B?
Jungshik Shin
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