Tex Texin wrote, > ... However, the fact that there is a rich text solution for italics > isn't helpful to plain text users. Truer words were never spoken. > In the '90s it made sense to resist styling plain text. In the 2020's, > with more than 100k characters, numerous pictures and character > adornments, it seems anachronistic to be arguing against a handful > of control characters that would standardize a common text > requirement. Most rendering systems will handle it easily and any > plain text editor or other software that supports a combining > strikethrough character would easily adapt a combining italicize or > a combining bold character. Exactly. William Overington has already posted a proof-of-concept here: https://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=7831... using a P.U.A. character /in lieu/ of a combining formatting or VS character. The concept is straightforward and works properly with existing technology.
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