I've been advised off-list that my attempt to make an analogy with CJK
doesn't sit well.
It's fair to say that ideographic variation sequences are for plain-text
representation of material which isn't suitable for atomic encoding. An
analogy can be drawn from that situation to the situation of other
scripts, such as Latin (or Khmer).
The ideographic variation sequences also represent an anomaly: if it's
not suitable for plain-text encoding, it doesn't *need* plain-text
representation. Except that it does.
It's the demands of the CJK user community which drive the plain-text
representation, which is proper. This method should apply to non-CJK
scripts as well.
Styled Latin text is being simulated with math alphanumerics now, which
means that data is being interchanged and archived. That's the user
demand illustrated.
Whether the users are doing it Chicago style or just plain willy-nilly
doesn't matter; it's being done. User communities drive their own
script development and advancement using the tools available.
Received on Fri Jan 11 2019 - 01:13:54 CST
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