Re: [Groff] mapping of glyphs to Unicode

[James Cloos]

>>>>> "Bruno" == Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

Bruno> U+27E8..27E9 are MATHEMATICAL LEFT/RIGHT ANGLE BRACKET and
Bruno> were introduced in Unicode 3.2.  The glyphs are very similar
Bruno> (see http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html under
Bruno> "Misc. Math Symbols A" and "Miscellaneous Technical").  Why
Bruno> prefer one over the other?

FWIW, those two glyphs are from the Symbol font.  devutf8 probably
uses them because the ps device uses Symbol to display la and ra.

Ideally groff should use them for math and the other angle brackets
for text.  Differentiating intent, though, is not so easy....

But math vs text is the reason they are not unified in unicode.

-JimC
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James H. Cloos, Jr. <address@hidden>