Re: Encoding italic

2019-01-22 Thread Richard Wordingham via Unicode
On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 00:29:42 -0800 David Starner via Unicode wrote: > The superscripts show a problem with multiple encoding; even if you > think they should be Unicode superscripts, and they look like Unicode > superscripts, they might be HTML superscripts. Same thing would happen > with

Re: Encoding italic (was: A last missing link)

2019-01-22 Thread Kent Karlsson via Unicode
Ok. One thing to note is that escape sequences (including control sequences, for those who care to distinguish those) probably should be "default ignorable" for display. Requiring, or even recommending, them to be default ignorable for other processing (like sorting, searching, and other things)

Re: Encoding italic (was: A last missing link)

2019-01-22 Thread wjgo_10...@btinternet.com via Unicode
Doug Ewell wrote: And indeed, the forthcoming Unicode Technical Note we are going to be writing to supplement the introduction of the characters in L2/19-025, whether next year or later, will recommend ISO 6429 sequences like this to implement features like background and foreground colors,