On 2019-01-26 12:18 AM, Asmus Freytag (c) responded:
On 1/25/2019 3:49 PM, Andrew Cunningham wrote:
Assuming some mechanism for italics is added to Unicode, when
converting between the new plain text and HTML there is insufficient
information to correctly convert to HTML. many elements may have
italic stying and there would be no meta information in Unicode to
indicate the appropriate HTML element.
So, we would be creating an interoperability issue.
What happens now when we convert plain-text to HTML?