<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">16 dec. 2020 kl. 04:18 skrev Zach Lym <<a href="mailto:indolering@gmail.com" class="">indolering@gmail.com</a>>:</div></blockquote><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="">But that begs the question: if the authors of a rich text standard<br class="">can't agree on what counts as semantic, how would Unicode decide?<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Eeh, </div><div><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div><i class="">file.<b class="">html</b></i><b class=""> </b>would be an HTML file, intending to interpret HTML tags as markup</div><div>(unless in a view tags mode of display) for programs/apps that can interpret HTML markup,</div><div>and regarding RTF or other non-HTML markup markup as plain text.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><i class="">file.<b class="">rtf </b></i>would be an RTF file, intending to interpret RTF markup (unless in a view markup</div><div>mode of display) for programs/apps that can interpret RTF markup, and regarding </div><div>HTML or other non-RTF markup markup as plain text.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>and so on.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>There are several other ways of indicating the file ”type”, but filename suffix is the</div><div>most obvious method that is used.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>So what was the problem did you say?</div><div><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="">What about <mark>, <strikethrough>, or as I previously suggested<br class=""><blink>? <blink> was added to HTML because it was the only<br class="">styling that could be displayed in plaintext console environments.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>I’m not sure that history is correct. Anyhow, for terminals (emulators nowadays)</div><div>underline, bold, italic, and coloring (also in combination) is commonly available.</div><div>(Even when terminals were monochrome, underline and bold could still be done,</div><div>even if done in a non-standard way.)</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Blink is often suppressed in modern terminal emulators (but then can be enabled by</div><div>a preference setting).</div><br class=""><div class="">/Kent Karlsson</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>