# bidirectional control

A text-direction control reported without changing logical or visual order.

Canonical: https://watermarkslayer.com/supported-artifacts/bidirectional-controls
Markdown alternate: https://watermarkslayer.com/supported-artifacts/bidirectional-controls.md
Last reviewed: 2026-08-12

## Registry facts

- Code point or framing: U+061C, U+200E, U+200F, U+202A-U+202E, U+2066-U+2069
- Launch support: report-only
- Launch action: report
- Risk: high
- Explicit writer selection required: no
- Visible review label: [bidirectional control]
- Fixture: fixture_report_bidi_controls
- Last fixture test: 2026-08-12

## Why it may appear legitimately

Direction controls are expected in right-to-left and mixed-direction writing.

- Right-to-left and mixed-direction text

## Launch behavior

Registry status: report-only. Watermark Slayer reports this observation and does not propose a cleanup edit.

## What a change could affect

Removing one can change visual order and meaning.

- Removal can change reading order and meaning.

## Claim boundary

Finding this artifact says only that the specified code point or framing was observed. It is not an authorship verdict, detector score, or evidence that text came from a particular system.

## Evidence

- [Unicode 17.0 Core Specification, Chapter 5](https://unicode.org/versions/Unicode17.0.0/core-spec/chapter-5/)
- [Unicode 17.0 Core Specification, Chapter 23](https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode17.0.0/core-spec/chapter-23/)