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[Andrew West via Unicode]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 at 10:25, Martin J. Dürst via Unicode
<unicode at unicode.org> wrote:
>
> The overall tag proposal had the desired effect: The original proposal
> to hijack some unused bytes in UTF-8 was defeated, and the tags itself
> were not actually used and therefore could be depreciated.

And the tag characters (all except E0001) are now no longer
deprecated. As flag tag sequences are now a thing
(http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/#valid-emoji-tag-sequences), and
are widely supported (including on Twitter), your and PV's objections
to using tag characters for a plain text font styling protocol simply
because they are tag characters carry zero weight.

Andrew