Encoding italic

[James Kass via Unicode]

Martin J. Dürst wrote,

 >> Isn't that already the case if one uses variation sequences to choose
 >> between Chinese and Japanese glyphs?
 >
 > Well, not necessarily. There's nothing prohibiting a font that includes
 > both Chinese and Japanese glyph variants.

Just as there’s nothing prohibiting a single font file from including 
both roman and italic variants of Latin characters.