Italics get used to express important semantic meaning, so unicode should support them

[James Kass]

On 2020-12-11 12:57 PM, Christian Kleineidam via Unicode wrote:
> This suggests that the spirit of Unicode includes the intention to be able
> to represent semantic meaning.

That's the spirit!

The topic of italics in Unicode was last discussed extensively on this 
list in January of 2019, bleeding into February.

https://unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2019-m01/

As Adam Borowski points out, enough people are using the math 
alphanumerics that we have a 𝑑𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑜 method.