A last missing link for interoperable representation

[Julian Bradfield via Unicode]

On 2019-01-12, Richard Wordingham via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 10:57:26 +0000 (GMT)
> Julian Bradfield via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:
>
>> It's also fundamentally misguided. When I _italicize_ a word, I am
>> writing a word composed of (plain old) letters, and then styling the
>> word; I am not composing a new and different word ("_italicize_") that
>> is distinct from the old word ("italicize") by virtue of being made up
>> of different letters.
>
> And what happens when you capitalise a word for emphasis or to begin a
> sentence?  Is it no longer the same word?

Indeed. As has been observed up-thread, the casing idea is a dumb one!
We are, however, stuck with it because of legacy encoding transported
into Unicode. We aren't stuck with encoding fonts into Unicode.

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