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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------