On 1/10/19 6:43 PM, James Kass via Unicode wrote:
The first step would be to persuade the "powers that be" that italics
are needed. That seems presently unlikely. There's an entrenched
mindset which seems to derive from the fact that pre-existing
character sets were based on mechanical typewriting technology and
were further limited by the maximum number of glyphs in primitive
computer fonts.
The second step would be to persuade Unicode to encode a new character
rather than simply using an existing variation selector character to
do the job.
A perhaps more affirmative step, not necessarily first but maybe, would
be to write up a proposal and submit it through channels so the "powers
that be" can respond officially.
~mark
