Unicode encoding philosophy

[Martin J. Dürst]

On 2023-10-05 21:22, Giacomo Catenazzi via Unicode wrote:

> Note: formatting is important, but it should be done at different level 
> (we should not repeat errors of 1960s-1989s on mixing text and 
> formatting, and putting formatting in "binary"/codepoints: we need 
> verbose and human readable syntax). IMHO HTML is not good enough for all 
> formatting things, but I do not think it should be done at Unicode (or 
> at least, not at codepoints, but at UAX level or with more "independent" 
> like ICU.

Please note that formatting (and in particular saying what's bold or 
italic) isn't really the business of HTML, but CSS.

Regards,   Martin.