Sure, I could have chosen a more watertight example to demonstrate the point. (And I think that "although" is an important "although" -- those characters are n

Sure, I could have chosen a more watertight example to demonstrate the point. (And I think that "although" is an important "although" -- those characters are not meant to be used for ordinary italics; if you do this, you're going to cause significant problems for anyone trying to process your text, such as by, say, searching it.) It doesn't have, I don't know, characters that are blue-colored bold italic underlined superscripts, you know? Whatever exceptions or seeming-exceptions Unicode may have made, they're not looking to make more of them.