[XeTeX] pointing angle brackets

[Alexey Kryukov]

On Wednesday 09 April 2008, Sven Siegmund wrote:
> Hello, I cannot typeset two characters:
>
> U+2329 LEFT-POINTING ANGLE BRACKET
> U+232A RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE BRACKET
>
> The only fonts on my system, which contain these characters are the
> DejaVu series (free to download). Nevertheless these signs do not get
> typeset.

As far as I can see, DejaVu has only so-called mathematical angle
brackets U+27E8/U+27E9. It is actually recommended to use those
characters instead of U+2329/U+232A in any non-CJK contexts: using
U+2329/U+232A is discouraged due to their canonical equivalence to 
U+3008/U+3009, which are supposed to be CJK double-width characters. 

The bad thing here is that there are already enough legacy documents
with U+2329/U+232A, so that font designers have either to ignore 
backward compatibility issues, or to include in their fonts 3 pairs of
absolutely identical characters, thus making the correct choice even
more difficult for end users.

-- 
Regards,
Alexej Kryukov <anagnost at yandex dot ru>

Moscow State University
Historical Faculty