Unicode characters are named after their appearance, not their semantics. For example the diaresis and the umlaut share the code-point U+0308. A printed booklet cannot be aware if the user is right- or left-handed. This is the same issue as with U+2BEA and U+2BEB, which are designed for ltr and rtl writing.
On Wed, 1 Jan 2020 10:08:42 -0500 John W Kennedy via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > As I have already said, this will not do. Mouses do not have “left” > and “right” buttons; they have “primary” buttons, which may be on the > left or right, and “secondary” buttons, which may be on the right or > left. If this goes through, users with left-handed mouse setups will > curse you forever. >