On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Mark E. Shoulson <m...@kli.org> wrote:
> Statelessness looks more like an ideal; the current reality already > violates it. The question is whether that ideal is "violated" because of choice or out of necessity; bidi-related stateful format codes specifically seem like a case of much needed addition to me. And no...I do not see any need to have **bold** and _italic_ modifiers in Unicode. ↪ Shervin On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Mark E. Shoulson <m...@kli.org> wrote: > On 03/26/2015 08:01 PM, Leo Broukhis wrote: > >> Exact semantics of formatting characters aside, it is best to define >> plain text as a stateless stream. >> > Well, not strictly true. Or at least, Unicode text is not quite > stateless. We have these directional overrides and embeddings and > isolates... The embeddings can even be nested. And turning national digit > shaping on and off, etc. Statelessness looks more like an ideal; the > current reality already violates it. > > ~mark > > _______________________________________________ > Unicode mailing list > Unicode@unicode.org > http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode >
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