Encoding italic (was: A last missing link)

Garth Wallace via Unicode unicode at unicode.org
Sun Jan 20 16:49:23 CST 2019


I think the real solution is for Twitter to just implement basic styling
and make this a moot point.

On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 2:37 AM Andrew West via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org>
wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Jan 2019 at 03:16, James Kass via Unicode
> <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:
> >
> > Possible approaches include:
> >
> > 3 - Open/Close punctuation treatment
> > Stateful.  Works on ranges.  Not currently supported in plain-text.
> > Could be supported in applications which can take a text string URL and
> > make it a clickable link.  Default appearance in nonsupporting apps may
> > resemble existing plain-text italic kludges such as slashes.  The ASCII
> > is already in the character string.
>
> A possibility that I don't think has been mentioned so far would be to
> use the existing tag characters (E0020..E007F). These are no longer
> deprecated, and as they are used in emoji flag tag sequences, software
> already needs to support them, and they should just be ignored by
> software that does not support them. The advantages are that no new
> characters need to be encoded, and they are flexible so that tag
> sequences for start/end of italic, bold, fraktur, double-struck,
> script, sans-serif styles could be defined. For example start and end
> of italic styling could be defined as the tag sequences <i> and </i>
> (E003C E0069 E003E and E003C E002F E0069 E003E).
>
> Andrew
>
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