On 1/25/2019 1:06 AM, wjgo_10009_at_btinternet.com wrote:
> Asmus Freytag wrote;
>
>> Other schemes, like a VS per code point, also suffer from being
>> different in philosophy from "standard" rich text approaches. Best
>> would be as standard extension to all the messaging systems (e.g. a
>> common markdown language, supported by UI). A./
>
> Yet that claim of what would be best would be stateful and
> statefulness is the very thing that Unicode seeks to avoid.
All rich text is stateful, and rich text is very widely used and
cut&paste tends to work rather well among applications that support it,
as do conversions of entire documents. Trying to duplicate it with "yet
another mechanism" is a doubtful achievement, even if it could be made
"stateless".
A./
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