diff --git a/src/orca/chnames.py b/src/orca/chnames.py
index f2f0783..eddd9e5 100644
--- a/src/orca/chnames.py
+++ b/src/orca/chnames.py
@@ -632,14 +632,6 @@ chnames[u'\u20ac'] = _("euro")
 #
 chnames[u'\u2122'] = _("trademark")
 
-# Translators: this is the spoken word for the character '←' (U+2190)
-#
-chnames[u'\u2190'] = _("left arrow")
-
-# Translators: this is the spoken word for the character '→' (U+2192)
-#
-chnames[u'\u2192'] = _("right arrow")
-
 # Translators: this is the spoken word for the character '≈' (U+2248)
 #
 chnames[u'\u2248'] = _("almost equal to")
@@ -742,6 +734,15 @@ chnames[u'\ue00a'] = _("black square")
 #
 chnames[u'\ue00c'] = _("black diamond")
 
+# Translators: this is the spoken word for the character '←' (U+2190)
+#
+chnames[u'\u2190'] = _("left arrow")
+
+# Translators: this is the spoken word for the character '→' (U+2192)
+#
+chnames[u'\u2192'] = _("right arrow")
+
+
 def getCharacterName(character):
     """Given a character, return its name as people might refer to it
     in ordinary conversation.
diff --git a/src/orca/punctuation_settings.py b/src/orca/punctuation_settings.py
index fb70902..1838787 100644
--- a/src/orca/punctuation_settings.py
+++ b/src/orca/punctuation_settings.py
@@ -123,6 +123,8 @@ lt_or_equal          =  u'\u2264'
 gt_or_equal          =  u'\u2265'
 square_root          =  u'\u221a'
 cube_root            =  u'\u221b'
+leftarrow=u'\u2190'
+rightarrow=u'\u2192'
 
 # punctuation is a dictionary where the keys represent a unicode
 # character and the values are a list of two elements where the
@@ -219,6 +221,8 @@ punctuation[one_half]           =  [ LEVEL_NONE, PUNCTUATION_REPLACE ]
 punctuation[three_quarters]     =  [ LEVEL_NONE, PUNCTUATION_REPLACE ]
 punctuation[superscript3]       =  [ LEVEL_NONE, PUNCTUATION_REPLACE ]
 punctuation[superscript2]       =  [ LEVEL_NONE, PUNCTUATION_REPLACE ]
+punctuation[leftarrow]   =  [ LEVEL_MOST, PUNCTUATION_REPLACE ]
+punctuation[rightarrow]   =  [ LEVEL_MOST, PUNCTUATION_REPLACE ]
 
 def getPunctuationInfo(character):
     """Given a punctuation character, return the value
