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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/12/2020 9:28 PM, Sławomir Osipiuk
via Unicode wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I mostly agree with the general
consensus, though probably not as firmly. However, I had a
showerthought that, specifically in the case of Latin
terms, marking them as such would be a legitimate use of
the Unicode language tags. Indeed, an indication of “this
is Latin text” would be more correct and future-proof than
“this is italicized”, since the proper styling to indicate
Latin text may change with the times, and because tags are
default-ignorable, this approach would still be compatible
with “plain text” programs. The wiki (or whatever
software) could be made to italicize Latin-within-English
text that is tagged as such.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I know the tags are officially
deprecated, but I personally think they got a bad rap. If
– and that is a big if – a system for basic formatting
(italic/bold/underlined/nonspecifically-emphasized) is
ever implemented in Unicode, it should be via the
default-ignorable tags.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sławomir Osipiuk<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><font face="Candara">Write a killer social media app that uses
these in an integral fashion and requires them for
interoperability and then sit back and watch how long they stay
deprecated ...<br>
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<p><font face="Candara">But you need to be successful first :)<br>
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<p><font face="Candara">A./</font><br>
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