Re: Encoding italic

[Asmus Freytag via Unicode]

On 1/19/2019 12:34 PM, James Kass via Unicode wrote: On 2019-01-19 6:19 PM, wjgo_10...@btinternet.com wrote: > It seems to me that it would be useful to have some codes that are > ordinary characters in some contexts yet are control codes in others, ... Italics aren't a novel concept.  The approach for encoding new characters is that  conventions for them exist and that people *are* exchanging them, people have exchanged them in the past, or that people demonstrably *need* to exchange them. Excluding emoji, any suggestion or proposal whose premise is "It seems to me that  it would be useful if characters supporting <this or that>..." is doomed to be deemed out of scope for the standard. +1. It's the worst kind of "leading standardization".