Re: Encoding italic

From: James Kass via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 20:34:48 +0000

On 2019-01-19 6:19 PM, wjgo_10009_at_btinternet.com wrote:

> It seems to me that it would be useful to have some codes that are
> ordinary characters in some contexts yet are control codes in others, ...

Italics aren't a novel concept.  The approach for encoding new
characters is that  conventions for them exist and that people *are*
exchanging them, people have exchanged them in the past, or that people
demonstrably *need* to exchange them.

Excluding emoji, any suggestion or proposal whose premise is "It seems
to me that  it would be useful if characters supporting <this or
that>..." is doomed to be deemed out of scope for the standard.
Received on Sat Jan 19 2019 - 14:35:20 CST

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