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bug #49721: uc_mirror_char returns surprising results

Submitter:  Bruno Haible <haible>
Submitted:  Mon 28 Nov 2016 01:41:51 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  unictype Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  Fix Released
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  haible
Open/Closed:  Closed

Sat 24 Feb 2024 04:35:14 PM UTC, comment #4: 

The fix is contained in libunistring 1.2.

Bruno Haible <haible>
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Fri 23 Feb 2024 05:53:19 PM UTC, comment #3: 
Bruno Haible <haible>
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Fri 23 Feb 2024 02:27:03 PM UTC, comment #2: 
Bruno Haible <haible>
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Mon 28 Nov 2016 01:49:31 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Regarding 1):
It's also explained in http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/#Mirroring

Bruno Haible <haible>
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Mon 28 Nov 2016 01:41:51 AM UTC, original submission:  

Reported at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libunistring/2016-11/msg00004.html

1) The documentation should explain that uc_mirror_char may return true, yet set the character to 0xfffd. This means that the character has the bidi mirror property (i.e. that it should be displayed through a mirrored glyph) but that this mirrored glyph does not exist as a Unicode character; thus a rendering engine needs to synthesize it artificially or pick it from an appropriate font. See section 4.7 of the Unicode standard.

2) The 'mirror_pairs' table in gen-uni-ctype.c should not be hardcoded but rather be read from the BidiMirroring.txt data file.

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