I just went to check, I am really surprised that what are now recognized as de facto symbols for media reproducing control had not been encoded - not even as emoji's.
I was expecting to find something similar to ">>" as "Fast Forward" or similar, as one can see in every media player, physical or in software, along with the symbols for "rewind", "play", "pause". Maybe starting a pledge to encode these with semantic meaning for forward and backward (for the visual glyphs ">>" and "<<") could be a thing, indeed - since none of the tens of right-pointing arrows listed by James above seems to convey the forward meaning. On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM Ivan Panchenko via Unicode <[email protected]> wrote: > > Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > > The use of two GREATER THAN characters is just a way to emulate a > > rightwards arrow using ASCII graphics. > > On the other hand, many UIs do have something like “<” or “>” (and I > am not talking about the ASCII characters!) to point to the > left/right. Not sure whether it deserves to be encoded as a Unicode > character, but then again, why not when there are all sorts of > different arrows? I have also seen something that looks similar to > “>>”. >
