Plain text (from Re: Avoidance variants)

[Shervin Afshar]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Mark E. Shoulson <mark at kli.org> wrote:


> Statelessness looks more like an ideal; the current reality already
> violates it.


The question is whether that ideal is "violated" because of choice or out
of necessity; bidi-related stateful format codes specifically seem like a
case of much needed addition to me.

And no...I do not see any need to have **bold** and _italic_ modifiers in
Unicode.

↪ Shervin

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Mark E. Shoulson <mark at kli.org> wrote:

> On 03/26/2015 08:01 PM, Leo Broukhis wrote:
>
>> Exact semantics of formatting characters aside, it is best to define
>> plain text as a stateless stream.
>>
> Well, not strictly true.  Or at least, Unicode text is not quite
> stateless.  We have these directional overrides and embeddings and
> isolates... The embeddings can even be nested.  And turning national digit
> shaping on and off, etc.  Statelessness looks more like an ideal; the
> current reality already violates it.
>
> ~mark
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