On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 at 10:25, Martin J. Dürst via Unicode <[email protected]> wrote: > > The overall tag proposal had the desired effect: The original proposal > to hijack some unused bytes in UTF-8 was defeated, and the tags itself > were not actually used and therefore could be depreciated.
And the tag characters (all except E0001) are now no longer deprecated. As flag tag sequences are now a thing (http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/#valid-emoji-tag-sequences), and are widely supported (including on Twitter), your and PV's objections to using tag characters for a plain text font styling protocol simply because they are tag characters carry zero weight. Andrew
