> >Michael, you aren't an implementer. When you implement things
> >unambiguously, you may need internal code points in your plain-text
> >stream to attach higher-level protocols (such as formatting properties)
> >to.
>
> That seems to be basically what William Overington is proposing,
> except these characters only handle furigana, instead all markup.
and except that these (what-shoulda-been) noncharacters are internal
use only, not used in open text interchange.
And Microsoft has others of such beasties hiding internally as
anchors for you-don't-wanna-know-what -- also not interchanged.
The point is what consenting adults do behind closed doors to
implement rich text is up to them. I don't know, I don't want to
know, and I don't want it out scaring the horses.
--Ken
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