At 11:05 +0100 2002-06-29, William Overington wrote: > >Therefore, color decoration is an issue only for *fonts* and/or *rich* text > >systems, not for Unicode or *plain* text encoding. > >Well, why? Surely a decorated full stop could be in a plain text file being >displayed in a program which has a background colour of white, a foreground >colour of black and a decoration colour of red set as the colours in which >the program works.
Because the underlying text encoded is the same, "This is my colourful text" whether it is formatted in red, in italic, or in some special font. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
