Re: A last missing link for interoperable representation

[Asmus Freytag via Unicode]

On 1/14/2019 2:08 AM, Tex via Unicode wrote: Perhaps the question should be put to twitter, messaging apps, text-to-voice vendors, and others whether it will be useful or not. If the discussion continues I would like to see more of a cost/benefit analysis. Where is the harm? What will the benefit to user communities be? The "it does no harm" is never an argument "for" making a change. It's something of a necessary, but not a sufficient condition, in other words. More to the point, if there were platforms (like social media) that felt an urgent need to support styling without a markup language, and could articulate that need in terms of a proposal, then we would have something to discuss. (We might engage them in a discussion of the advisability of supporting "markdown", for example). Short of that, I'm extremely leery of "leading" standardization; that is, encoding things that "might" be used. As for the abuse of math alphabetics. That's happening whether we like it or not, but at this point represents playful experimentation by the exuberant fringe of Unicode users and certainly doesn't need any additional extensions.