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[Asmus Freytag (c) via Unicode]

On 1/25/2019 1:06 AM, wjgo_10009 at btinternet.com wrote:
> Asmus Freytag wrote;
>
>> Other schemes, like a VS per code point, also suffer from being 
>> different in philosophy from "standard" rich text approaches. Best 
>> would be as standard extension to all the messaging systems (e.g. a 
>> common markdown language, supported by UI).     A./
>
> Yet that claim of what would be best would be stateful and 
> statefulness is the very thing that Unicode seeks to avoid. 

All rich text is stateful, and rich text is very widely used and 
cut&paste tends to work rather well among applications that support it, 
as do conversions of entire documents. Trying to duplicate it with "yet 
another mechanism" is a doubtful achievement, even if it could be made 
"stateless".

A./

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