On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM Nitai Sasson via Unicode < [email protected]> wrote:
> I just had a thought. Would it make sense to prescribe the Variation > Selectors to do this? I think that would be absolutely terrible. Variation selectors are a "pretty please" request to select a specific glyph, if that's available. So you get an arrow pointing one way on a system that has a ligature-type mapping in its font, and an arrow pointing the opposite way on a system that doesn't. https://www.unicode.org/versions/latest/core-spec/chapter-23/#G19053 I think the right way to deal with this in something like directions ("go from A --> B") is to use a placeholder for the arrow, as well as for the A and B, and populate the arrow placeholder with the one that points "forward" according to the directionality of the text box = the directionality of the UI language. markus
