Re: Encoding italic

[James Kass via Unicode]

Martin J. Dürst wrote,

>> Isn't that already the case if one uses variation sequences to choose
>> between Chinese and Japanese glyphs?
>
> Well, not necessarily. There's nothing prohibiting a font that includes
> both Chinese and Japanese glyph variants.

Just as there’s nothing prohibiting a single font file from including 
both roman and italic variants of Latin characters.