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These characters are not punctuation, they're just in the "General Punctuation" block. General Punctuation is a Unicode block containing punctuation, spacing, and formatting characters.
Unicode provides two other invisible directional control characters.
They are "directional control" characters, instead of directional "control characters".
Since Unicode calls them "format characters", we can change the text to something like:
Unicode provides two other invisible format characters related to direction.
Unicode provides two other invisible format characters related to direction.
thats an improvement, so sounds good
this page:
https://w3.org/International/questions/qa-bidi-unicode-controls
sourced here:
https://github.com/w3c/i18n-drafts/blob/gh-pages/questions/qa-bidi-unicode-controls.en.html
contains:
but these aren't control characters. according to the same website in multiple locations, they are "General Punctuation":