On 1/25/2019 1:06 AM, wjgo_10...@btinternet.com wrote:
Asmus Freytag wrote;
Other schemes, like a VS per code point, also suffer from being
different in philosophy from "standard" rich text approaches. Best
would be as standard extension to all the messaging systems (e.g. a
common markdown language, supported by UI). A./
Yet that claim of what would be best would be stateful and
statefulness is the very thing that Unicode seeks to avoid.
All rich text is stateful, and rich text is very widely used and
cut&paste tends to work rather well among applications that support it,
as do conversions of entire documents. Trying to duplicate it with "yet
another mechanism" is a doubtful achievement, even if it could be made
"stateless".
A./
