Re: Encoding italic

From: James Kass via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 06:39:42 +0000

On 2019-01-26 12:18 AM, Asmus Freytag (c) responded:
> On 1/25/2019 3:49 PM, Andrew Cunningham wrote:
>> Assuming some mechanism for italics is added to Unicode,  when
>> converting between the new plain text and HTML there is insufficient
>> information to correctly convert to HTML. many elements may have
>> italic stying and there would be no meta information in Unicode to
>> indicate the appropriate HTML element.
>>
>>
> So, we would be creating an interoperability issue.
>
>
What happens now when we convert plain-text to HTML?
Received on Sat Jan 26 2019 - 00:40:05 CST

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