On 3/27/2015 6:00 AM, William_J_G Overington wrote:
So, if that were implemented, then to typeset, say, the word astrolabe
within a plain text file, in italics, one would need to use nine
instances of the COMBINING ITALICIZER, one instance after each letter
of the word astrolabe.
That would be fine and the characters discussed would be, in my
opinion, two useful additions to Unicode.
Just because you seem not to get this, those would not only be useless,
they would lead to dual encoding a problem that needs to be avoided, not
added to.
With the Math Alphanumerics, Unicode decided not to use the combining
mark approach, but to encode individual characters in their italic/bold
shapes, for use when isolated letters need to have that appearance as
part of technical notations.
In adoption that solution, nearly fifteen years ago, Unicode effectively
set a precedent against the kind of character you re proposing.
As you apparently find it difficult to understand this, let me spell it
out for you: any proposal for adding these kind of characters is dead
on arrival.
A./
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