On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 11:16 PM Tex via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > Twitter was offered as an example, not the only example just one of the most > ubiquitous. Many messaging apps and other apps would benefit from italics. > The argument is not based on adding italics to twitter.
And again, color me skeptical. If italics are just added to Unicode and not to the relevant app or interface, they will not see much use, in the same way that most non-ASCII characters for proper English--the quotes, the dashes, the accents--are often ignored because they're too hard to enter. But if you're going to add italics, having it in Unicode doesn't make it significantly easier, particularly when they need to support systems that predate Unicode adding italics. > The biggest burden would be to the apps that would benefit, to add > italicizing and editing capabilities. If they would benefit or if they'd accept the burden, they'd have already added italics, via HTML or Markdown or escape sequences or whatever. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero.
