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

[William_J_G Overington]

Ken Whistler wrote as follows.

> You mean, as in the following sequence, shown here as a stream of 
> plain text characters in email?

<img height='24' width='auto' alt="😎" 
src="https://www.unicode.org/images/twitter/twitter_1f60e.png">

And interpreted in the following document, in context, as HTML:

https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Major_Sources

??

Actually no, for bitmap images I was thinking of a tag character 
sequence method that was proposed in a document in The Unicode Technical 
Committee Document Register some time ago that would directly embed an 
image in a plain text file, no external link. It was not authored by me, 
I cannot find it at present.

For vector graphics I was thinking of a tag character version of the 
eutographics system that I devised back in 2002. (Please note that that 
is eutographics, not  eurographics, as which it has sometimes been 
incorrectly described.)

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/ast03000.htm

It worked well locally using a Java applet in a web page.

So, if The Unicode Technical Committee were to include these ideas in 
Unicode, then Unicode could enable much more information to be 
communicated unambiguously and interoperably in a plain text file.

William Overington

Monday 14 December 2020

Please note that the email address used in the listings in the 
eutographics web page is not in regular use these days.