Bug 15420 (Sven_Siegmund)

Summary:	Angle brackets request
Product:	DejaVu	Reporter:	Sven Siegmund <sven.siegmund>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Deja Vu bugs <dejavu-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Sven Siegmund 2008-04-09 05:54:28 UTC

I'd like to be able to write typographically correct angle brackets with DejaVu fonts (instead of using "<" or ">")

AFAIK the correct characters for them are:
U+3008 LEFT ANGLE BRACKET
U+3009 RIGHT ANGLE BRACKET

They are in the CJK Symbols and Punctuation Block. I know that the coverage of this Block is planned and probably has not yet started. But creating the two angle brackets would not be too much work and they are signs, which would get frequently used. (At least by people who know the difference between U+003C LESS-THAN SIGN and U+3008 LEFT ANGLE BRACKET).

Comment 1 Sven Siegmund 2008-04-09 06:17:36 UTC

Actually, I may be wrong suggestng U+3008 and U+3009 as the typographically correct characters. These should probably be used as brackets in CJK scripts.

Many fonts already have angle brackets in the Miscellaneous Technical block in code positions

U+2329 LEFT-POINTING ANGLE BRACKET
U+232A RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE BRACKET

Dejavu Sans Mono has most of the code points in this block, but still lacks these angle brackets. It would be nice to see these code positions filled soon.

Comment 2 Ben Laenen 2008-04-09 06:34:57 UTC

Actually, U+2329 and U+232A aren't the correct symbols to use either :-)

The ones you want are at U+27E8 and U+27E9 (MATHEMATICAL LEFT/RIGHT ANGLE BRACKET), and those are in DejaVu.

As you might have noticed, these angle brackets have become a mess in Unicode... U+2329-U+232A are discouraged since they're canonically equivalent with U+3008-U+3009, which means they're for CJK usage as well, so that's the reason why they're not in DejaVu.

Comment 3 Sven Siegmund 2008-04-09 06:51:43 UTC

Yes, I have noticed that. Thanks for the note. It's a mess! So I have to use mathematical ones even If I do not use them in a mathematical sense %-)

Comment 4 James Cloos 2008-04-09 13:27:03 UTC

Might you be looking for:

2039	[ ‹]	SINGLE LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
203A	[ ›]	SINGLE RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK

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