On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Alexey Proskuryakov wrote: > On Apr 6, 2008, at 5:10 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > In HTML5, we changed the mappings for ⟨ and ⟩. The legacy > > mappings of these two characters are to characters that are defined as > > canonically equivalent to CJK wide characters. The new mappings are: > > > > lang U+027E8 > > rang U+027E9 > > What is the rationale for this? As I understand it the original mappings were CJK characters, they're not the right ones for angle brackets. > Besides, font support for U+027E8 MATHEMATICAL LEFT ANGLE BRACKET seems > to be rather poor at the moment - on my machine, there is only one font > that has it. Hopefully by the time HTML5 is done, that won't be an issue. :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'Received on Friday, 23 May 2008 07:06:24 UTC
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