“plain text styling”…

[Sławomir Osipiuk]

On Wednesday, 04 January 2023, 19:53:40 (-05:00), Kent Karlsson via Unicode 
wrote:



The advantage this approach has is that by using a separate class of 
characters, no substring of printable characters (including SP, HT), no 
substring of printable characters can be confused with controls for text 
styling.



I don't see this as a major concern. IMO, what people want from Unicode 
styling is one or both of these things:


1. Extremely compact styling, made possible by assigning dedicated 
characters for each style
2. Default-ignorable styling markup that neatly disappears if it cannot be 
interpreted, made possible by the existing set of default-ignorable Unicode 
characters.


ECMA-48 does the first not very well, and the the second not at all.

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