On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 15:42, James Kass <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here's a very polite reply from John Hudson from 2000, > http://unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/Archives-Old/UML024/1042.html > ...and, over time, many of the replies to William Overington's colorful > suggestions were less than polite. But it was clear that colors were > out-of-scope for a computer plain-text encoding standard.
Going off topic a little, I saw this tweet from Marijn van Putten today which shows examples of Arabic script from early Quranic manuscripts with phonetic information indicated by the use of red and green dots: https://twitter.com/PhDniX/status/1088171783461703682 I would be interested to know how those should be represented in Unicode. Andrew
