On 2019-01-12, Richard Wordingham via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 10:57:26 +0000 (GMT) > Julian Bradfield via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > >> It's also fundamentally misguided. When I _italicize_ a word, I am >> writing a word composed of (plain old) letters, and then styling the >> word; I am not composing a new and different word ("_italicize_") that >> is distinct from the old word ("italicize") by virtue of being made up >> of different letters. > > And what happens when you capitalise a word for emphasis or to begin a > sentence? Is it no longer the same word?
Indeed. As has been observed up-thread, the casing idea is a dumb one! We are, however, stuck with it because of legacy encoding transported into Unicode. We aren't stuck with encoding fonts into Unicode. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.