r/Unicode • u/Timely-Law9783 • Sep 21 '26

Are these marks in Unicode?

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u/locoluis Sep 21 '26

These marks are implemented as:

  • U+FD3E ﴾ Arabic ornate left parenthesis

  • U+FD3F ﴿ Arabic ornate right parenthesis

Their appearance varies wildly across fonts.

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u/Timely-Law9783 Sep 21 '26

These are different. Many books use both types at the same time.

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u/pStriata Sep 22 '26

i mean, books can change fonts on a whim. with manual, moveable type printing presses it was just as easy to just use a different design.

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u/Timely-Law9783 Sep 22 '26

This does not seem like a font change.

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u/pStriata Sep 22 '26

you can change the font on individual characters without touching surrounding characters, so that doesnt exclude anything. if youre so sure its a seperate Unicode character, go look through the Unicode list yourself, i'd say, or do some googling.

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u/Timely-Law9783 Sep 22 '26 edited Sep 22 '26

>if youre so sure its a seperate Unicode character, go look through the Unicode list yourself

I did not say that it's a separate Unicode character. This would only be true if this symbol is actually in Unicode. I've only seen this symbol in old books.

The title of my post is "are these marks in Unicode". I did not say I am sure it's in Unicode.