On 1/19/19 3:34 PM, James Kass via Unicode wrote:
On 2019-01-19 6:19 PM, [email protected] 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.
This was the quote I had been looking for, sorry James and Asmus. It
isn't the first time it's been pointed out here.
~mark
