Re: Encoding italic

Martin J. Dürst wrote:
 
> Here's a little dirty secret about these tag characters: They were
> placed in one of the astral planes explicitly to make sure they'd use
> 4 bytes per tag character, and thus quite a few bytes for any actual
> complete tags.
 
<theory type="conspiracy" serious="false">

Aha. That explains why SCSU had to be banished to the hut, right around
the same time the Plane 14 language tags were deprecated. In SCSU,
astral characters can be 1 byte just like BMP characters.

</theory>
 

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