Subject: Re: bug#9698: 24.0.90; Inserting 0x2215 produces 0x29F5
From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:53:34 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

tags 9698 notabug
stop

> Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:30:37 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
> 
> Bug or feature?  If a feature, what is the intent here?

Answering my own question: a feature.  This is due to the fact that
0x2215 is a mirrored character, and its mirror image is 0x29F5; see
admin/unidata/BidiMirroring.txt.  Emacs behaves as intended here, and
mirrors the character when it is in right-to-left context.

Closing the bug.