Responding to David Starner,
It’s true that most users can’t be troubled to take the extra time
needed to insert any kind of special characters which aren’t covered by
the keyboard. Even the enthusiasts among us seldom take the trouble to
include ‘proper’ quotes and apostrophes in e-mails
On 1/20/2019 2:55 PM, James Kass via
Unicode wrote:
On 2019-01-20 10:49 PM, Garth Wallace wrote:
I think the real solution is for Twitter
to just implement basic styling and make this a moot point.
At which
On 1/20/2019 2:49 PM, Garth Wallace via
Unicode wrote:
I think the real solution is for Twitter to just
implement basic styling and make this a moot point.
Twitter FB and CO should implement a common "MarkDown"
On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 2:57 PM James Kass via Unicode
wrote:
> At which time it would only become a moot point for Twitter users.
> There's also Facebook and other on-line groups. Plus scholars and
> linguists. And interoperability.
>
How do you envision this working? In practice, English is
On 1/19/19 10:14 PM, James Kass via Unicode wrote:
(In the event that a persuasive proposal presentation prompts the
possibility of italics encoding...)
Possible approaches include:
1 - Liberating the italics from the Members Only Math Club
...which has been an ongoing practice since they
On 2019-01-20 10:49 PM, Garth Wallace wrote:
I think the real solution is for Twitter to just implement basic
styling and make this a moot point.
At which time it would only become a moot point for Twitter users.
There's also Facebook and other on-line groups. Plus scholars and
I think the real solution is for Twitter to just implement basic styling
and make this a moot point.
On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 2:37 AM Andrew West via Unicode
wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jan 2019 at 03:16, James Kass via Unicode
> wrote:
> >
> > Possible approaches include:
> >
> > 3 - Open/Close
Thanks for the reply. These answers make sense.
However, I am still confused by that passage from the Standard in § 4.8. To
review, it says: “Because Unicode character names do not contain any underscore
(“_”) characters, a common strategy is to replace any hyphen-minus or space in
a
On Sun, 20 Jan 2019 at 03:16, James Kass via Unicode
wrote:
>
> Possible approaches include:
>
> 3 - Open/Close punctuation treatment
> Stateful. Works on ranges. Not currently supported in plain-text.
> Could be supported in applications which can take a text string URL and
> make it a
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