They are unified with the double angle quotation marks. Persian also uses the round version (and if if I remember correctly, Greek too).
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Michael Fayez <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi all, > I noticed that double small parentheses that are used in professional > printing in Arabic presses are not encoded in Unicode. Currently materials > published for Internet or printed using Microsoft Word these characters are > substituted with either double quotes " " or left and right double angle > quotation mark «» > Here are samples for these characters: > http://i.imgur.com/D0pr5PG.jpg > from book of confessions of Tolstoy printed in 1930 in Cairo page 47 > > http://i.imgur.com/aAgRDq1.jpg > From dostor Egyptian newspaper of June,11th, 2013 page 4. The whole > edition can be found here http://dostor.org/component/digital/edition/175 > all online editions are here > > http://dostor.org/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%82%D9%8A > > > So does Unicode Consortium has an official position regarding these 2 > characters? Are they unified with left and right double angle quotation > mark «»? >

