Encoding italic

[Asmus Freytag (c) via Unicode]

On 1/25/2019 3:49 PM, Andrew Cunningham wrote:
> Assuming some mechanism for italics is added to Unicode,  when 
> converting between the new plain text and HTML there is insufficient 
> information to correctly convert to HTML. many elements may have 
> italic stying and there would be no meta information in Unicode to 
> indicate the appropriate HTML element.
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So, we would be creating an interoperability issue.

A./


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> On Friday, 25 January 2019, wjgo_10009 at btinternet.com 
> <mailto:wjgo_10009 at btinternet.com> via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org 
> <mailto:unicode at unicode.org>> wrote:
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>     Asmus Freytag wrote;
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>         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./
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>     Yet that claim of what would be best would be stateful and
>     statefulness is the very thing that Unicode seeks to avoid.
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>     Plain text is the basic system and a Variation Selector mechanism
>     after each character that is to become italicized is not stateful
>     and can be implemented using existing OpenType technology.
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>     If an organization chooses to develop and use a rich text format
>     then that is a matter for that organization and any changing of
>     formatting of how italics are done when converting between plain
>     text and rich text is the responsibility of the organization that
>     introduces its rich text format.
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>     Twitter was just an example that someone introduced along the way,
>     it was not the original request.
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>     Also this is not only about messaging. Of primary importance is
>     the conservation of texts in plain text format, for example, where
>     a printed book has one word italicized in a sentence and the text
>     is being transcribed into a computer.
>
>     William Overington
>     Friday 25 January 2019
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> -- 
> Andrew Cunningham
> lang.support at gmail.com <mailto:lang.support at gmail.com>
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