On 26/03/15 23:27, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
On 03/26/2015 11:18 AM, William_J_G Overington wrote:
> Blocks of boring plain text, no italics or effects any more complex
than justification, simple notes written all in one font with no
formatting to speak of etc.
I am wondering if it is considered a good idea to define into Plane
14 some formatting characters, so that plain text could in the future
contain italics and so on.
And we could define "plain water" to include sugar and flavorings, and
have Coke run out of our taps. But that isn't "plain water" anymore.
And yes, we DO allow some additives in water and still call it
"plain", even as we do have some formatting characters in Unicode and
call it plain text (e.g. tab, formfeed, ZWJ, RLO, PDF, etc)
Alternatively, you could say we already have such things encodable as
plain text, using character sequences, like U+003C U+0069 U+003E to
indicate "BEGIN ITALICS", etc... Just need the right reader...
~mark
Or you could just redefine "&" and "<" as
U+0026 START HTML ENTITY
and
U+003C START HTML TAG
and be done with it, and just incorporate HTML5 into Unicode forever,
thus eliminating these discussions from this list, and moving them to
the W3C and WHATWG lists...
-- Neil
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