Inconsistent IOS forward / backward arrows alignment

[dezhin]

Hi, the arrow_forward_ios icon is center aligned, but arrow_backward_ios is left aligned. Is it a bug or a feature?

[tphinney]

When originally implemented, the icon was misaligned. As people presumably compensated for that, rather than mess up existing implementations, a corrected version was added as “arrow_back_ios_new”

All long before my time, both were already in place several years ago.

[dezhin]

Got it, not breaking anything seems reasonable. I see arrow_back_ios_new in Material Icons (deprecated), but there is no such icon in Material Symbols (new) which is on the screenshot.

[tphinney]

Hmmm. The icon is present in the font. So that must mean its viewing is being suppressed in the front end viewing. Seems like a bug.

But it does mean that even if you can’t view it in the interface, you can call it by name or codepoint. Name was given, codepoint is E2EA

I will see about getting the front end fixed as well

[tphinney]

OK, got agreement to un-hide it on the front end as well.
When the front end gets updated is TBD, but it should come through on the next update.