Plain text (from Re: Avoidance variants)

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Fri Mar 27 05:31:15 CDT 2015


On 27 Mar 2015, at 01:01, Leo Broukhis <leob at mailcom.com> wrote:

> Exact semantics of formatting characters aside, it is best to define plain text as a stateless stream. The characters you're proposing require a decoder to keep state, therefore they won't do. <TIC>At most you may ask for
> *U+E1001 COMBINING ITALICIZER
> *U+E1003 COMBINING BOLDIFIER

COMBINING EMBOLDENER, surely. ;-)

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/




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