I don't know what these floor and ceiling things are. I don't recognize them as "half square brackets" and neither do the specialists. Are these supposed to be half square brackets? ...
Well, apparently so, from reading the Unicode 4.0 code charts. Maybe we need to disunify in a later version, but that's what the standard is for now.
... Why weren't they encoded as punctuation? Why don't they have names that reflect that in any way?
There are plenty of other misnamed characters. :-(
Right square bracket has a general category of Ps.
Right parenthesis has a general category of Ps
Right ceiling has a general category of Sm
Looks like an inconsistency which can be resolved in two ways: 1) Add new punctuation characters and leave these ones as symbols; 2) Adjust the categories of these ones to Ps.
And what about bidi mirroring?
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