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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><div><div><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><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><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><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sławomir Osipiuk<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>