Re: Encoding italic

On 1/25/2019 3:49 PM, Andrew Cunningham wrote:
> Assuming some mechanism for italics is added to Unicode,  when
> converting between the new plain text and HTML there is insufficient
> information to correctly convert to HTML. many elements may have
> italic stying and there would be no meta information in Unicode to
> indicate the appropriate HTML element.
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So, we would be creating an interoperability issue.

A./

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> On Friday, 25 January 2019, wjgo_10009_at_btinternet.com
> <mailto:wjgo_10009_at_btinternet.com> via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org
> <mailto:unicode_at_unicode.org>> wrote:
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> Asmus Freytag wrote;
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> 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./
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> Yet that claim of what would be best would be stateful and
> statefulness is the very thing that Unicode seeks to avoid.
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> Plain text is the basic system and a Variation Selector mechanism
> after each character that is to become italicized is not stateful
> and can be implemented using existing OpenType technology.
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> If an organization chooses to develop and use a rich text format
> then that is a matter for that organization and any changing of
> formatting of how italics are done when converting between plain
> text and rich text is the responsibility of the organization that
> introduces its rich text format.
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> Twitter was just an example that someone introduced along the way,
> it was not the original request.
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> Also this is not only about messaging. Of primary importance is
> the conservation of texts in plain text format, for example, where
> a printed book has one word italicized in a sentence and the text
> is being transcribed into a computer.
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> William Overington
> Friday 25 January 2019
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> Andrew Cunningham
> lang.support_at_gmail.com <mailto:lang.support_at_gmail.com>
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Received on Fri Jan 25 2019 - 18:18:43 CST