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10 Jun
2008
10 Jun
'08
9:28 a.m.
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. Arthur