Bug#999865: Probably wrong spacing around the open colon ⦂ (U+2982)

[Peter Mueller]

Package: gedit
Version: 3.38.1-1
Reproduce:
Create a UTF-8-encoded file containing the following four symbols: Latin small A, followed by space, followed by open colon, followed by space, and terminated by Latin small B:
a ⦂ b
In hex, the contexts of the file is this:
61 20 E2 A6 82 20 62
On my machine, gedit shows more spacing before the open colon than after it; cf. the attachment (also uploaded to https://i.imgur.com/qJ6MTCd.png http://i.imgur.com/qJ6MTCd.png ). I can't imagine what could be the rationale for the current spacing.
On the contrary, either the spacing should be equal around ⦂ (which corresponds to viewing the open colon as a mathematical relation) or the space before ⦂ should be lesser that the space after ⦂ (which corresponds to viewing the open colon as a mathematical punctuation).
I would be happy if my bug report finds attention.
Thanks in advance,
Peter
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