[i18n-drafts] questions/qa-bidi-unicode-controls: bidi marks are not control characters (#556)

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== questions/qa-bidi-unicode-controls: bidi marks are not control characters ==

this page:

https://w3.org/International/questions/qa-bidi-unicode-controls

sourced here:

https://github.com/w3c/i18n-drafts/blob/gh-pages/questions/qa-bidi-unicode-controls.en.html

contains:

~~~
Unicode provides two other invisible directional control characters.
Character  Name  Code point  Equivalent markup  Comment
LRM  LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK  U+200E  none  strongly typed LTR character
RLM  RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK  U+200F  none  strongly typed RTL character
~~~

but these aren't control characters. according to the same website in multiple locations, they are "General Punctuation":

- https://w3.org/International/Spread/punctuation.txt
- https://w3.org/TR/WD-html40-970708/sgml/entities.html


Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/i18n-drafts/issues/556 using your GitHub account


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