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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/12/2020 7:20 PM, Doug Ewell via
Unicode wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">We do understand that not every possible nuance of human communication, such as shades of emphasis, can be expressed in plain text. It seems that the nearly 30-year-old Unicode definition of "plain text" still has not caught on universally, since requests continue to emerge for UTC to encode things that are not plain text by that definition.</pre>
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<p><font face="Candara">If you go against an established
method/truth/system/consensus/anything and win, you'll be
famous. That's the lure that keeps people up at night trying to
create a <i>perpetuum mobile</i>. <br>
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<p><font face="Candara">Problem is, that chances of that winning are
usually more than elusive.</font></p>
<p><font face="Candara">Doesn't prevent people from trying.</font></p>
<p><font face="Candara">If conservation of energy, posited by Julius
von Mayer in 1842 and well-tested in the over 150 years since
then, does not prevent people trying the impossible, then why
should 30 years of Unicode be sufficient :)</font></p>
<p><font face="Candara">A./<br>
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