Re: “plain text styling”…

Mark E. Shoulson mark at kli.org
Mon Jan 9 20:19:40 CST 2023


On 1/4/23 21:06, Doug Ewell via Unicode wrote:
> Mark E. Shoulson replied to Kent Karlsson:
>
>>> It is, however, a while ago since the last update to ECMA-48, and
>>> that shows. I’ve compiled a proposed update for the text styling part
>>> of ECMA-48:
>>> https://github.com/kent-karlsson/control/blob/main/ecma-48-style-modernisation-2022.pdf
>> Actually not necessarily a bad idea, at least at first browsing, but
>> it's kind of out of scope for Unicode, isn't it?  It sounds like an
>> update to ECMA-48 (which isn't part of Unicode), and they're the
>> people you'd have to convince.
> Actually, Kent's document does include updates and clarifications that are specific to Unicode. So there is certainly something for readers of this list.

So I guess maybe we should restrict the discussion to those "updates and 
clarifications that are specific to Unicode" which you mention.  What 
aspects would you consider those to be?  Things like what characters are 
valid to use in the codes or something?

~mark


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