> Blocks
of boring plain text, no italics or effects any more complex than
justification, simple notes written all in one font with no
formatting to speak of etc.
I am wondering if it is considered a good idea to define into Plane 14 some
formatting characters, so that plain text could in the future contain italics
and so on.
For example, written here with an asterisk included as I seem to remember that
that is the convention so as to avoid a suggested new character being mistaken
as an existing character, how about the following.
*U+E1000 FORMAT NOT ITALICS
*U+E1001 FORMAT ITALICS
*U+E1002 FORMAT NOT BOLD
*U+E1003 FORMAT BOLD
Traditionally such a suggestion would be refuted as out of scope for plain
text: use of markup would be suggested.
Yet that was then, this is now: ideas of what can, or should, be encoded in
plain text have changed with time and could usefully continue to change where
that is of use to consumers.
I have often wondered why use of markup is regarded as such a requirement when
the capabilities of plain text could so easily be enhanced. Expanding the
capabilities of plain text would increase interoperability.
William Overington
26 March 2015
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